| Source Data | |
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| Rank | unranked clade (PBDB) |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Titanosauria |
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Classification
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Sauropoda | stated without evidence | Bonaparte and Coria, 1993 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Sauropoda | stated with evidence | Bonaparte, 1996 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Titanomorpha | stated without evidence | Sereno, 1997 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Titanosauriformes | stated without evidence | Salgado et al., 1997 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Somphospondyli | stated with evidence | Sereno, 1998 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Somphospondyli | stated without evidence | Wilson and Sereno, 1998 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Macronaria | stated without evidence | Sereno et al., 1999 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Somphospondyli | stated with evidence | Sereno, 1999 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Titanosauriformes | stated without evidence | Smith et al., 2001 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Somphospondyli | stated with evidence | Wilson, 2002 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Sauropoda | stated without evidence | González-Riga, 2003 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Somphospondyli | stated without evidence | You et al., 2004 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Titanosauriformes | stated with evidence | Upchurch et al., 2004 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Titanosauriformes | stated without evidence | Martínez et al., 2004 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Somphospondyli | stated without evidence | Curry Rogers, 2005 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Titanosauriformes | stated without evidence | Apesteguía, 2005 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Camarasauromorpha | stated without evidence | Moser et al., 2006 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Titanosauriformes | stated with evidence | Royo-Torres et al., 2006 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Titanosauriformes | stated without evidence | Calvo et al., 2007 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Somphospondyli | stated with evidence | Allain and Aquesbi, 2008 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Sauropoda | stated without evidence | Gorscak et al., 2014 | | Titanosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Somphospondyli | stated without evidence | Filippi, 2015 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 226 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 172 - 165 Ma
Middle Jurassic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 58.7 - 48.6 Ma
Paleogene |
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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) | J. F. Bonaparte and R. A. Coria. 1993. Un neuvo y gigantesco saurópodo titanosaurio de la Formación Rio Limay (Albanio-Cenomaniano) de la Provincia del Neuquén, Argentina [A new and huge titanosaur sauropod from the Rio Limay Formation (Albian-Cenomanian) of Neuquén Province, Argentina]. Ameghiniana 30(3):271-282 |
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| Bonaparte J. F., Coria R. A. (1993) Un neuvo y gigantesco saurópodo titanosaurio de la Formación Rio Limay (Albanio-Cenomaniano) de la Provincia del Neuquén, Argentina [A new and huge titanosaur sauropod from the Rio Limay Formation (Albian-Cenomanian) of Neuquén Province, Argentina], Ameghiniana 30 3, 271-282 |
| Bonaparte J. F. (1996) Cretaceous tetrapods of Argentina, Münchner Geowissenschaften Abhandlungen 30, 73-130 |
| 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 |
| Smith J. B., Lamanna M. C., et al (2001) A giant sauropod dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous mangrove deposit in Egypt, Science 292, 1704-1706 |
| Wilson J. A. (2002) Sauropod dinosaur phylogeny: critique and cladistic analysis, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136, 217-276 |
| González-Riga B. J. (2003) A new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mendoza Province, Argentina, Ameghiniana 40 2, 155-172 |
| Curry Rogers K. A., Forster C. A. (2004) The skull of Rapteosaurus krausei (Sauropoda: Titanosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24 1, 121-144 |
| Martínez R. D., Giménez O., et al (2004) An articulated specimen of the basal titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) Epachthosaurus sciuttoi from the early Late Cretaceous Bajo Barreal Formation of Chubut province, Argentina, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24 1, 107-120 |
| Upchurch P., Barrett P. M., et al (2004) Sauropoda, The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 259-322 |
| You H., Ji Q., et al (2004) A titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur with opsithocoelous caudal vertebrae from the early Late Cretaceous of Liaoning province, China, Acta Geologica Sinica 78 4, 907-911 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Calvo J. O., González Riga B. J., et al (2007) A new titanosaur sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina, Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 65 4, 485-504 |
| Sánchez-Hernández B., Benton M. J., et al (2007) Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of the Galve area, NE Spain, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 249, 180-215 doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.01.009 |
| 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 |
| González Riga B. J., Previtera E., et al (2009) Malarguesaurus florenciae gen. et sp. nov., a new titanosauriform (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mendoza, Argentina, Cretaceous Research 30 1, 135-148 doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2008.06.006 |
| Zaher H., Pol D., et al (2011) A complete skull of an Early Cretaceous sauropod and the evolution of advanced titanosaurians, PLoS One 6 2, e16663:1-10 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016663 |
| D'Emic M. D. (2013) Revision of the sauropod dinosaurs of the Lower Cretaceous Trinity Group, southern USA, with the description of a new genus, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11 6, 707-726 doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.667446 |
| Gorscak E., O'Connor P. M., et al (2014) The basal titanosaurian Rukwatitan bisepultus (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation, Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 5, 1133-1154 doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.845568 |
| Filippi L. S. (2015) Los dinosaurios Sauropoda del Cretácico Superior del norte de la Cuenca Neuquina, Patagonia Argentina [The sauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of the north of the Neuquén Basin, Argentine Patagonia], Boletín del Instituto de Fisiografía y Geología 85, 19-28 |
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