This category is reserved for taxa that have been used as wastebaskets by paleontologists in classification at some point, whether it was in history or still is today. A wastebasket taxon is when any taxon is used to group unrelated genera that fit nowhere else.
Popular examples of wastebasket taxa, formerly or currently, include:
- Megalosaurus
- Titanosaurus
- Mamenchisaurus
- Iguanodon
- Troodon
- Clade Insectovora
- Clade Carnosauria
- Kingdom Protista
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