Sauropodomorph
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| Sauropodomorph Temporal range: Upper Triassic – Upper Cretaceous
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| Suborder: | Sauropodomorpha von Huene, 1932
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Sauropodomorpha is the suborder of dinosaurs with massive, quadrupedal herbivores with extremely long necks and tails.
Sauropodomorpha are divided into prosauropods and sauropods. Among the sauropods were the largest land animals ever known: Seismosaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus (popularly known as Brontosaurus), and others.
Description
[change | change source]Only the modern blue whale is larger than these creatures; no land animal comes close. Argentinosaurus, with a vertebra over 1.59 metres long, is the largest.[1]
- See Sauropod for the full account.
Taxonomy
[change | change source]- Suborder Sauropodomorpha
- Panphagia
- Saturnalia?
- Thecodontosaurus
- Infraorder Prosauropoda
- Family Massospondylidae
- Family Plateosauridae
- Family Riojasauridae
- Infraorder Sauropoda
- Family Vulcanodontidae
- Family Omeisauridae
- Division Neosauropoda
- Family Cetiosauridae
- Family Diplodocidae
- Subdivision Macronaria
- Family Camarasauridae
- Infradivision Titanosauriformes
- Family Brachiosauridae
- Cohort Somphospondyli
- Family Euhelopodidae
- Family Titanosauridae
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Bonaparte J. & Coria R. 1993. Un nuevo y gigantesco sauropodo titanosaurio de la Formacion Rio Limay (Albiano-Cenomaniano) de la Provincia del Neuquen, Argentina. Ameghiniana 30 (3): 271–282.