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Vulcanodon ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	38650	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38650

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Vulcanodon

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
genus	Vulcanodon	Raath 1972

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Melanorosauridae	stated without evidence	Raath, 1972
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Molnar, 1980
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Vulcanodontidae	stated with evidence	Bonaparte, 1986
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Vulcanodontidae	stated without evidence	Bonaparte, 1986
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Melanorosauridae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated with evidence	Benton, 1990
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Vulcanodontidae	stated with evidence	McIntosh, 1990
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Barapasauridae	stated without evidence	Hunt et al., 1995
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Vulcanodontidae	stated with evidence	Upchurch, 1995
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Vulcanodontidae	stated without evidence	Upchurch, 1995
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Salgado et al., 1997
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Vulcanodontidae	stated without evidence	McIntosh, 1997
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated with evidence	Sereno, 1998
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Wilson and Sereno, 1998
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Vulcanodontidae	stated without evidence	Dong, 1998
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated with evidence	Sereno, 1999
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Sereno et al., 1999
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated with evidence	Wilson, 2002
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Bandyopadhyay et al., 2003
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated with evidence	Upchurch et al., 2004
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Vulcanodontidae	stated without evidence	Allain et al., 2004
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated with evidence	Royo-Torres et al., 2006
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Moser et al., 2006
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated with evidence	Upchurch et al., 2007
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Smith and Pol, 2007
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Vulcanodontidae	stated with evidence	Allain and Aquesbi, 2008
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated with evidence	Bandyopadhyay et al., 2010
Vulcanodon	genus	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Otero and Pol, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

199 - 183 Ma
Early Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

199 - 183 Ma
Early Jurassic

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)

M. A. Raath. 1972. Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: a new dinosaur (Reptilia: Saurischia) from near the Tria-Jurassic boundary. Arnoldia 5(31):1-37

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Vulcanodon karibaensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	199 Ma Early Jurassic	199 Ma Early Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1972	Vulcanodon Raath p. 4 figs. 1-13
1980	Vulcanodon Molnar p. 138
1986	Vulcanodon Bonaparte p. 257
1988	Vulcanodon Carroll
1990	Vulcanodon Benton p. 23
1990	Vulcanodon McIntosh p. 54
1995	Vulcanodon Hunt et al. p. 263
1995	Vulcanodon Upchurch p. 253
1997	Vulcanodon McIntosh p. 655
1997	Vulcanodon Salgado et al. p. 25 fig. 19
1997	Vulcanodon Sereno p. 442 fig. 4
1998	Vulcanodon Dong p. 83
1998	Vulcanodon Sereno p. 63
1998	Vulcanodon Wilson and Sereno p. 54 fig. 44
1999	Vulcanodon Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
1999	Vulcanodon Sereno et al. p. 1346 fig. 4

Year	Name and Author
2002	Vulcanodon Wilson p. 240 fig. 13
2003	Vulcanodon Bandyopadhyay et al. p. 31A
2004	Vulcanodon Allain et al. p. 205 fig. 3
2004	Vulcanodon Upchurch et al. p. 261
2006	Vulcanodon Moser et al. p. 44
2006	Vulcanodon Royo-Torres et al. p. 1926 fig. 3
2007	Vulcanodon Smith and Pol p. 668 fig. 7
2007	Vulcanodon Upchurch et al. p. 62 fig. 3
2008	Vulcanodon Allain and Aquesbi p. 404
2010	Vulcanodon Bandyopadhyay et al. pp. 562-563 fig. 17
2010	Vulcanodon Suteethorn et al.
2011	Vulcanodon Sekiya
2013	Vulcanodon Otero and Pol
2014	Vulcanodon Mocho et al.
2015	Vulcanodon Xing et al.

References

Raath M. A. (1972) Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: a new dinosaur (Reptilia: Saurischia) from near the Tria-Jurassic boundary, Arnoldia 5 31, 1-37

Molnar R. E. (1980) Australian late Mesozoic continental tetrapods: some implications, Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 139, 131-143

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

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Benton M. J. (1990) Origin and interrelationships of dinosaurs, The Dinosauria, D. B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, & H. Osmólska (editors), University of California Press, Berkeley, 11-30

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

Hunt A. P., Lockley M. G., et al (1995) The global sauropod fossil record, Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10, 261-279

Salgado L., Coria R. A., et al (1997) Evolution of titanosaurid sauropods. I: Phylogenetic analysis based on the postcranial evidence, Ameghiniana 34 1, 3-32

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

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

Allain R., Aquesbi N., et al (2004) A basal sauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Morocco, Comptes Rendus Palevol 3 3, 199-208

Upchurch P., Barrett P. M., et al (2004) Sauropoda, The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 259-322

Moser M., Mathur U. B., et al (2006) Oldest camarasauromorph sauropod (Dinosauria) discovered in the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) of the Khadir Island, Kachchh, western India, Paläontologische Zeitschrift 80 1, 34-51

Royo-Torres R., Cobos A., et al (2006) A giant European dinosaur and a new sauropod clade, Science 314, 1925-1927

Smith N. D., Pol D. (2007) Anatomy of a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Hanson Formation of Antarctica, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52 4, 657-674

Upchurch P., Barrett P. M., et al (2007) A phylogenetic analysis of basal sauropodomorph relationships: implications for the origin of sauropod dinosaurs, Evolution and Palaeobiology of Early Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs, Special Papers in Palaeontology 77, 57-90

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

Bandyopadhyay S., Gillette D. D., et al (2010) Osteology of Barapasaurus tagorei (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Early Jurassic of India, Palaeontology 53 3, 533-569 doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00933.x

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

Otero A., Pol D. (2013) Postcranial anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Mussaurus patagonicus (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 5, 1138-1168

Mocho P., Royo-Torres R., et al (2014) Phylogenetic reassessment of Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis, a basal Macronaria (Sauropoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170, 875-916 doi:10.1111/zoj.12113

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

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