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Monophyletic taxon: Sauropoda Marsh 1878 [Salgado et al. 1997] (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: table 1 (p. 590) (Yates, 2007b). [implicit]

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

Saltasaurus (Genus) Bonaparte & Powell, 1980 Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: table 1 (p. 590) (Yates, 2007b).

Defined by excluded taxon

Melanorosaurus (Genus) Haughton, 1924 Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: table 1 (p. 590) (Yates, 2007b).

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

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 †13f;208g;130s
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