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Mamenchisauridae is a family of sauropod dinosaurs known from the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Asia and Africa.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamenchisauridae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4967275	https://www.gbif.org/species/4967275
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	53026	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=53026

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Mamenchisauridae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Mamenchisauridae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
family	Mamenchisauridae	Chao 1965

Common Name

mamenchisaurid

Scientific Name

Mamenchisauridae

Name Published In

Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology Monographs Series A 8: 2.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mamenchisauridae	family	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Young and Chao, 1972
Mamenchisauridae	family	belongs to Sauropoda	stated with evidence	Dong and Tang, 1984
Mamenchisauridae	subfamily	belongs to Diplodocidae	stated with evidence	McIntosh, 1990
Mamenchisauridae	family	subjective synonym of Euhelopodidae	stated without evidence	Hunt et al., 1995
Mamenchisauridae	family	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Zhang and Chen, 1996
Mamenchisauridae	family	belongs to Mamenchisauroidea	stated with evidence	Dong, 1998
Mamenchisauridae	family	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Tang et al., 2001
Mamenchisauridae	family	belongs to Eusauropoda	stated with evidence	Suteethorn et al., 2010
Mamenchisauridae	family	belongs to Eusauropoda	stated without evidence	Suteethorn et al., 2013
Mamenchisauridae	family	belongs to Eusauropoda	stated with evidence	Xing et al., 2015

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

201 - 174 Ma
Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

122 - 112 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

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)

S. Chao. 1965. Wǒguó de dà kǒnglóng yī héchuān mǎmén xī lóng [China’s largest dinosaur—Hehchuan-Mamenxian dragon]. Sheng wu xue tong bao [Bulletin of Biology] 1965(4):35-37

Common Name(s)

Mamenchisaurid

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamenchisauridae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anhuilong ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic
Chuanjiesaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic
Eomamenchisaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic
Huangshanlong ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic
Mamenchisaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	24	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Omeisaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	12	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Qijianglong ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Tienshanosaurus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Tonganosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Wamweracaudia ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	152 Ma Late Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Xinjiangtitan ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Yuanmousaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Omeisauridae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Omeisauridae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1965	Mamenchisauridae Chao p. 36
1972	Mamenchisauridae Young and Chao p. 2
1984	Mamenchisauridae Dong and Tang
1988	Mamenchisauridae He et al. p. 6
1990	Mamenchisaurinae McIntosh p. 56
1996	Mamenchisauridae Zhang and Chen
1997	Mamenchisauridae McIntosh p. 657
1998	Mamenchisauridae Dong p. 84

Year	Name and Author
2001	Mamenchisauridae Tang et al. p. 14
2002	Mamenchisauridae Ouyang and Ye p. 90
2002	Omeisauridae Wilson p. 240 fig. 13
2008	Omeisauridae Allain and Aquesbi p. 403
2010	Mamenchisauridae Suteethorn et al.
2011	Mamenchisauridae Sekiya
2013	Mamenchisauridae Suteethorn et al. p. 461
2015	Mamenchisauridae Xing et al.

References

Chao S. (1965) Wǒguó de dà kǒnglóng yī héchuān mǎmén xī lóng [China’s largest dinosaur—Hehchuan-Mamenxian dragon], Sheng wu xue tong bao [Bulletin of Biology] 1965 4, 35-37

Young C.-C., Chao H. C. (1972) [Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis sp. nov.], Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology Monographs, Series A 8, 1-30

Dong Z., Tang Z. (1984) [Note on a new Mid-Jurassic sauropod (Datousaurus bashanensis gen. et sp. nov.) from Sichuan Basin, China], Vertebrata PalAsiatica 22 1, 69-75

He X., Li K., et al (1988) The Middle Jurassic dinosaur fauna from Dashanpu, Zigong, Sichuan. Vol. IV. Sauropod dinosaurs (2). Omeisaurus tianfuensis, Sichuan Publishing House of Science and Technology, 1-143

McIntosh J. S. (1990) Species determination in sauropod dinosaurs with tentative suggestions for their classification, Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 53-69

Tang F., Jin X.-S., et al (2001) , Omeisaurus maoianus: a complete Sauropoda from Jingyan, Sichuan, 1-128

Ouyang H., Ye Y. (2002) The first mamenchisaurian skeleton with complete skull: Mamenchisaurus youngi, Sichuan Science and Technology Press, Chengdu, 1-111

Wilson J. A. (2002) Sauropod dinosaur phylogeny: critique and cladistic analysis, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136, 217-276

Allain R., Aquesbi N. (2008) Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Tazoudasaurus naimi (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the late Early Jurassic of Morocco, Geodiversitas 30 2, 345-424

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

Sekiya T. (2011) Re-examination of Chuanjiesaurus anaensis (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Middle Jurassic Chuanjie Formation, Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, southwest China, Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 10, 1-54

Suteethorn S., Loeuff J. L., et al (2013) First evidence of a mamenchisaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous Phu Kradung Formation of Thailand, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 3, 459-469 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2009.0155

Xing L., Miyashita T., et al (2015) A new sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China and the diversity, distribution, and relationships of mamenchisaurids, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 1, e889701:1-17 doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.889701

Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology Monographs Series A 8: 2. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Xing et al., 2015 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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