Concise hierarchy

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

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Anchisauria (Clade) Galton & Upchurch 2004		Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: 250.
†Anchisauria (Clade) Galton & Upchurch 2004		Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: table 1 (p. 590) (Galton & Upchurch, 2004).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Melanorosauridae (Clade) Huene 1929

Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: 251.

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Anchisauridae (Clade) Marsh 1885		Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: 250.
†Sauropoda (Clade) Marsh 1878 [Salgado et al. 1997]		Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: table 1 (p. 590) (Yates, 2007b).

Current position

†Melanorosauridae (Family) von Huene, 1929

Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 140.

Alternative positions

†Melanorosauridae (Clade) Huene 1929	Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: 249 (fig. 12.11).
†Sauropodiformes (Clade) Sereno 2007	Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: 612 (fig. 17).

Historical positions

†Sauropodiformes (Clade) Sereno 2007	Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: 612 (fig. 17).
†Melanorosauridae (Clade) Huene 1929	Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: table 12.1 (p. [235]), 249 (fig. 12.11).
†Melanorosauridae (Family) von Huene, 1929	Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 140.
†Melanorosauridae (Family) von Huene, 1929	Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 133.
†Melanorosauridae (Family) von Huene, 1929	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621).

Number of Subtaxa

2026

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

†1s