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Taxon: Genus †Massospondylus Owen, 1854 (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Plateosauria (Clade) Tornier 1913 [Sereno 1998] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Massospondylidae (Clade) Huene 1914 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Plateosauridae (Clade) Marsh 1895 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Plateosauridae (Clade) Marsh 1895 Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: 252.

Current position

†Massospondylidae (Family) Huene, 1914 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 130; ~Sereno, 1998: 71 (fig. 7A).

Alternative positions

†Anchisauridae (Family) Marsh, 1885 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621).
†Massospondylidae (Clade) Huene 1914 Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: 612 (fig. 17).
†Plateosauria (Clade) Tornier 1913 [Sereno 1998] Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: 249 (fig. 12.11).
†Plateosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1895 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 139.

Historical positions

†Massospondylidae (Clade) Huene 1914 Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: 612 (fig. 17).
†Plateosauria (Clade) Tornier 1913 [Sereno 1998] Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: table 12.1 (p. [235]), 249 (fig. 12.11).
†Massospondylidae (Clade) Huene 1914 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: 71 (fig. 7A).
†Plateosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1895 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 139.
†Massospondylidae (Family) Huene, 1914 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 130.
†Plateosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1895 Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 302.
†Anchisauridae (Family) Marsh, 1885 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621).
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