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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	57439	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=57439

Rank

unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Neosauropoda

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Eusaurischia	Padian et al. 1999
-	Sauropodomorpha
-	Massopoda	Yates 2007
-	Sauropodiformes	Martinez et al. 2011
-	Sauropoda
-	Eusauropoda	Upchurch 1995
-	Neosauropoda	Bonaparte 1986

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Neosauropoda	unranked clade	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Bonaparte, 1986
Neosauropoda	unranked clade	belongs to Eusauropoda	stated with evidence	Upchurch, 1995
Neosauropoda	unranked clade	belongs to Eusauropoda	stated without evidence	Upchurch, 1995
Neosauropoda	unranked clade	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Upchurch, 1997
Neosauropoda	unranked clade	belongs to Eusauropoda	stated with evidence	Sereno, 1998
Neosauropoda	unranked clade	belongs to Eusauropoda	stated without evidence	Wilson and Sereno, 1998
Neosauropoda	unranked clade	belongs to Eusauropoda	stated with evidence	Sereno, 1999
Neosauropoda	unranked clade	belongs to Eusauropoda	stated without evidence	Sereno et al., 1999
Neosauropoda	unranked clade	belongs to Eusauropoda	stated with evidence	Wilson, 2002
Neosauropoda	unranked clade	belongs to Eusauropoda	stated without evidence	Sánchez-Hernández et al., 2007
Neosauropoda	unranked clade	belongs to Eusauropoda	stated with evidence	Allain and Aquesbi, 2008
Neosauropoda	unranked clade	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Taylor et al., 2011
Neosauropoda	unranked clade	belongs to Eusauropoda	stated with evidence	Mateus et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

477

First Recorded Appearance

180 - 168 Ma
Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

58.7 - 48.6 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Sauropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Sauropoda)

Diet

herbivore (based on Sauropoda)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Sauropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Sauropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense,thick (based on Sauropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. F. Bonaparte. 1986. Les dinosaures (Carnosaures, Allosauridés, Sauropodes, Cétosauridés) du Jurassique Moyen de Cerro Cóndor (Chubut, Argentina) [The dinosaurs (carnosaurs, allosaurids, sauropods, cetiosaurids) from the Middle Jurassic of Cerro Cóndor (Chubut, Argentina)]. Annales de Paléontologie (Vert.-Invert.) 72(3):325-386

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Titanosauroidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)
Archaeodontosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Oobardjidama ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Diplodocoidea ✝ unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	335	180 Ma Early Jurassic	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Macronaria ✝ unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	1,151	180 Ma Early Jurassic	58.7 Ma Paleocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1874	Ischyrosaurus Hulke p. 16
1875	Bothriospondylus Owen
1875	Bothriospondylus suffossus Owen p. 15 figs. Pl. 3-5
1875	Marmarospondylus Owen p. 22
1876	Bothriospondylus suffossus Davies p. 197
1876	Bothriospondylus suffossus Hudleston p. 543
1876	Bothriospondylus suffossus Owen p. 5
1876	Bothriospondylus suffossus Sauvage p. 439
1878	Bothriospondylus suffossus Owen p. 209
1880	Bothriospondylus suffossus Sauvage p. 523
1882	Bothriospondylus Sauvage p. 35
1884	Bothriospondylus Dollo p. 298
1884	Bothriospondylus Marsh p. 68
1885	Bothriospondylus Marsh p. 764
1888	Ischyrosaurus manseli Hulke p. 152
1888	Ornithopsis manseli Lydekker p. 58
1888	Ischyrosaurus manseli Lydekker p. 152
1888	Ornithopsis manseli Lydekker p. 152
1888	Bothriospondylus Lydekker p. 170
1888	Bothriospondylus suffossus Lydekker pp. 170-171
1888	Ornithopsis manselii Mansel-Pleydell p. 39
1889	Bothriospondylus Lydekker p. 245
1890	Bothriospondylus suffossus Woodward and Sherborn p. 212
1890	Ornithopsis manseli Woodward and Sherborn p. 260
1890	Bothriospondylus Zittel p. 716
1893	Bothriospondylus Winkler p. 101
1895	Bothriospondylus Lydekker pp. 335-336
1895	Bothriospondylus suffossus Lydekker p. 335
1895	Bothriospondylus Marsh
1896	Bothriospondylus Marsh p. 242
1897	Pleurocoelus suffosus Marsh p. 415
1898	Bothriospondylus Marsh p. 158
1900	Bothriospondylus Sauvage p. 503
1900	Bothriospondylus suffossus Sauvage p. 504
1900	Pelorosaurus manseli Sauvage p. 504
1903	Astrodon suffossus Hatcher p. 13
1906	Bothriospondylus Sauvage p. 498
1911	Bothriospondylus von Zittel p. 287
1911	Ischyrosaurus von Zittel p. 287
1927	Bothriospondylus Huene p. 122
1927	Bothriospondylus suffossus Huene p. 446
1928	Bothriospondylus Nopcsa p. 184
1929	Bothriospondylus Huene p. 116
1943	Bothriospondylus Lapparent p. 18
1948	Bothriospondylus Cabrera p. 38
1956	Bothriospondylus Romer p. 621

Year	Name and Author
1960	Ornithopsis manseli Delair p. 82
1960	Ornithopsis manselli Delair p. 84
1964	Bothriospondylus Tatarinov p. 547
1964	Bothriospondylus suffosus Tatarinov p. 547
1966	Bothriospondylus Romer p. 370
1970	Ornithopsis manseli Macfadyen p. 127
1970	Bothriospondylus Steel p. 67
1970	Bothriospondylus suffossus Steel p. 67
1970	Pelorosaurus manseli Steel p. 70
1970	Bothriospondylus Swinton p. 172
1973	Bothriospondylus Delair p. 4
1973	Bothriospondylus suffosus Delair p. 4
1980	Bothriospondylus Molnar p. 138
1981	Bothriospondylus Coombs, Jr. and Molnar p. 357
1981	Bothriospondylus Santafé-Llopis et al. p. 143
1982	Bothriospondylus Santafé et al. p. 96
1984	Bothriospondylus Taquet p. 79
1986	Neosauropoda Bonaparte p. 359
1988	Bothriospondylus Carroll
1990	Ischyrosaurus McIntosh p. 348
1990	Ischyrosaurus manseli McIntosh p. 348
1990	Bothriospondylus McIntosh p. 382
1990	Bothriospondylus suffosus McIntosh p. 382
1993	Bothriospondylus Salgado and Calvo p. 216
1994	Neosauropoda Wilson and Sereno p. 52A
1995	Neosauropoda Upchurch p. 253
1997	Bothriospondylus McIntosh p. 656
1997	Neosauropoda Salgado et al. pp. 8-9
1997	Neosauropoda Sereno p. 444
1997	Neosauropoda Upchurch p. 82A
1998	Neosauropoda Sereno p. 63
1998	Neosauropoda Wilson and Sereno p. 46
1999	Neosauropoda Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
1999	Neosauropoda Sereno et al. p. 1346 fig. 4
2002	Neosauropoda Wilson p. 240 fig. 13
2004	Neosauropoda Upchurch et al. p. 263
2006	Bothriospondylus Flynn et al. p. 478
2007	Neosauropoda Sánchez-Hernández et al. p. 197
2008	Neosauropoda Allain and Aquesbi p. 403
2010	Neosauropoda Suteethorn et al.
2011	Neosauropoda Taylor et al. p. 78
2012	Neosauropoda Mateus et al.
2013	Neosauropoda Otero and Pol
2015	Neosauropoda Xing et al.
2019	Neosauropoda Mannion et al.

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