| Source Data | |
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| Rank | unranked clade (PBDB) |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Dicraeosauridae |
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Classification
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| Common Name | dicraeosaurid |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Sauropoda | stated without evidence | Huene, 1927 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Sauropoda | stated with evidence | Kuhn, 1946 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Homalosauropodidae | stated with evidence | Huene, 1948 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Homalosauropodoidea | stated with evidence | Kuhn, 1966 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Sauropoda | stated without evidence | Galton, 1977 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | subjective synonym of Atlantosauridae | stated without evidence | Bonaparte, 1978 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Sauropoda | stated with evidence | Bonaparte, 1986 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Sauropoda | stated without evidence | Molnar, 1992 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Diplodocoidea | stated with evidence | Upchurch, 1995 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Diplodocoidea | stated without evidence | Hunt et al., 1995 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Sauropoda | stated with evidence | Bonaparte, 1996 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Diplodocoidea | stated without evidence | Sereno, 1997 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Diplodocoidea | stated with evidence | Sereno, 1998 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Diplodocoidea | stated without evidence | Wilson and Sereno, 1998 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Diplodocoidea | stated with evidence | Sereno, 1999 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Diplodocoidea | stated without evidence | Sereno et al., 1999 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Sauropoda | stated without evidence | Bonaparte, 1999 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Diplodocoidea | stated with evidence | Wilson, 2002 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Flagellicaudata | stated without evidence | Harris and Dodson, 2004 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Diplodocoidea | stated without evidence | Salgado and Coria, 2005 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Flagellicaudata | stated without evidence | Gallina and Apesteguía, 2005 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Diplodocimorpha | stated without evidence | Salgado et al., 2006 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Diplodocoidea | stated without evidence | Remes, 2006 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Flagellicaudata | stated with evidence | Apesteguía, 2007 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Diplodocoidea | stated with evidence | Suteethorn et al., 2010 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Flagellicaudata | stated with evidence | Whitlock, 2011 | | Dicraeosauridae | family | belongs to Diplodocoidea | stated with evidence | Wilson and Allain, 2015 | | Dicraeosauridae | unranked clade | belongs to Flagellicaudata | stated with evidence | Tschopp et al., 2015 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 20 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 180 - 168 Ma
Jurassic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 129 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Sauropoda) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Sauropoda) |
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| Diet | herbivore (based on Sauropoda) |
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| Reproduction | oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Sauropoda) |
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| Ontogeny | accretion,modification of parts (based on Sauropoda) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite,compact or dense,thick (based on Sauropoda) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | F. v. Huene. 1927. Short review of the present knowledge of the Sauropoda. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(1):121-126 |
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| Huene F. v. (1927) Short review of the present knowledge of the Sauropoda, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9 1, 121-126 |
| Kuhn O. (1946) Das System der fossilen und rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien [The system of fossil and recent amphibians and reptiles], Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bamberg 29, 49-67 |
| Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154 |
| Galton P. M. (1977) The Upper Jurassic dinosaur Dryosaurus and a Laurasia-Gondwana connection in the Upper Jurassic, Nature 268 5617, 230-232 |
| Bonaparte J. F. (1986) The early radiation and phylogenetic relationships of the Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs, based on vertebral anatomy, The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change Across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 247-258 |
| Hunt A. P., Lockley M. G., et al (1995) The global sauropod fossil record, Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10, 261-279 |
| Bonaparte J. F. (1996) Cretaceous tetrapods of Argentina, Münchner Geowissenschaften Abhandlungen 30, 73-130 |
| Wilson J. A., Smith M. B. (1996) New remains of Amphicoelias Cope (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Montana and diplodocoid phylogeny, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 3, suppl., 73A |
| Sereno P. C. (1997) The origin and evolution of dinosaurs, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 25, 435-489 |
| Sereno P. C. (1998) A rationale for phylogenetic definitions, with application to the higher-level taxonomy of Dinosauria, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 210 1, 41-83 |
| Wilson J. A., Sereno P. C. (1998) Early evolution and higher-level phylogeny of sauropod dinosaurs. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 5, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18 2 (suppl.), 1-68 |
| Bonaparte J. F. (1999) Evolución de las vértebras presacras en Sauropodomorpha [Evolution of the presacral vertebrae in Sauropodomorpha], Ameghiniana 36 2, 115-187 |
| Sereno P. C. (1999) The evolution of dinosaurs, Science 284, 2137-2147 |
| Sereno P. C., Beck A. L., et al (1999) Cretaceous sauropods from the Sahara and the uneven rate of skeletal evolution among dinosaurs, Science 286, 1342-1347 |
| Wilson J. A. (2002) Sauropod dinosaur phylogeny: critique and cladistic analysis, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136, 217-276 |
| Harris J. D., Dodson P. (2004) A new diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Montana, USA, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49 2, 197-210 |
| Upchurch P., Barrett P. M., et al (2004) Sauropoda, The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 259-322 |
| Gallina P. A., Apesteguía S. (2005) Cathartesaura anaerobica gen. et sp. nov., a new rebbachisaurid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Huincul Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Río Negro, Argentina, Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 7 2, 153-166 |
| Rauhut O. W. M., Remes K., et al (2005) Discovery of a short-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period of Patagonia, Nature 435, 670-672 |
| Remes K. (2006) A revision of the Tendaguru sauropod dinosaur Tornieria africana (Fraas) and its relevance for sauropod paleobiogeography, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 3, 651-669 doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[651:ROTTSD]2.0.CO;2 |
| Salgado L., Carvalho I. d. S., et al (2006) Zapalasaurus bonapartei, un nuevo saurópodo de La Formación La Amarga (Cretacico Inferior), noroeste de Patagonia, Provincia de Neuquén, Argentina [Zapalasaurus bonapartei, a new sauropod from the La Amarga Formation (Lower Cretaceous), northwestern Patagonia, Neuquén province, Argentina], Géobios 39, 695-707 |
| Apesteguía S. (2007) The sauropod diversity of the La Amarga Formation (Barremian), Neuquén (Argentina), Gondwana Research 12, 533-546 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2007.04.007 |
| Suteethorn S., Le Loeuff J., et al (2010) Description of topotypes of Phuwiangosaurus sirindhornae, a sauropod from the Sao Khua Formation (Early Cretaceous) of Thailand, and their phylogenetic implications, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 256 1, 109-121 doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0036 |
| Whitlock J. A. (2011) A phylogenetic analysis of Diplodocoidea (Saurischia: Sauropoda), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161, 872-915 |
| Ibiricu L. M., Casal G. A., et al (2012) The southernmost records of Rebbachisauridae (Sauropoda: Diplodocoidea), from early Late Cretaceous deposits in central Patagonia, Cretaceous Research 34, 220-232 |
| Tschopp E., Mateus O. (2013) The skull and neck of a new flagellicaudatan sauropod from the Morrison Formation and its implication for the evolution and ontogeny of diplodocid dinosaurs, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11 7, 853-888 doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.746589 |
| Tschopp E., Mateus O., et al (2015) A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda), PeerJ 3, e857 doi:10.7717/peerj.857 |
| Wilson J. A., Allain R. (2015) Osteology of Rebbachisaurus garasbae Lavocat, 1954, a diplodocoid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the early Late Cretaceous–aged Kem Kem beds of southeastern Morocco, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 4, e1000701:1-33 doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.1000701 |
| Mannion P. D., Upchurch P., et al (2019) Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod dinosaur evolution, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185 3, 784-909 doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly068/5300162 |
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