Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Sauropodomorpha

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).

Defined by included taxon (and all taxa more closely related to it than to the excluded taxon)

†Saltasaurus (Genus) Bonaparte & Powell, 1980

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).

Defined by excluded taxon

†Plateosaurus (Genus) Meyer, 1837

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Sauropodomorpha (Clade) Huene 1932 [Salgado et al. 1997]

Ref: L. Salgado et al., 1997: 6.

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Prosauropoda (Clade) Huene 1920 [Sereno 1998]

Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: 233.

Branch-based clade

†Sauropoda (Clade) Marsh 1878 [Salgado et al. 1997]

Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: table 1 (p. 590) (Yates, 2007b).

Current position

†Sauropodiformes (Clade) Sereno 2007

Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: 612 (fig. 17).

Alternative positions

†Sauropodomorpha (Clade) Huene 1932 [Salgado et al. 1997]

Ref: T.R. Holtz Jr. & H. Osmólska, 2004: 22.

Historical positions

Saurischia (Clade) Seeley 1887 [Gauthier 1986], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: J.I. Canudo et al., 2018: 681. [rough position]
Saurischia (Clade) Seeley 1887 [Gauthier 1986], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: V. Díez Díaz et al., 2018: 433.
†Prosauropoda (Clade) Huene 1920 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: B.B. Britt et al., 2017: 193, 234 (fig. 35).
†Sauropodiformes (Clade) Sereno 2007	Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: 612 (fig. 17).
Dinosauria (Clade) Owen 1841 [Padian & May 1993], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: P.A. Gallina & A. Otero, 2015: 489.
Saurischia (Clade) Seeley 1887 [Gauthier 1986], nom. cl. inval.	Ref: J.A. Whitlock, 2011: 872 (title).
†Sauropodomorpha (Clade) Huene 1932 [Salgado et al. 1997]	Ref: P. Upchurch et al., 2004: table 13.1 (p. [261]), 297 (fig. 13.18); fig. S.1.
†Sauropodomorpha (Clade) Huene 1932 [Salgado et al. 1997]	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63), figs. 4, 7B.
†Sauropodomorpha (Clade) Huene 1932 [Salgado et al. 1997]	Ref: M.J. Benton, 1990: fig. 1.5.

Number of Subtaxa

2025

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

†13f;209g;135s