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Diplodocoidea ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	57362	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=57362

Rank

unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Diplodocoidea

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
superfamily	Diplodocoidea

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Diplodocoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neosauropoda	stated with evidence	Upchurch, 1995
Diplodocoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neosauropoda	stated without evidence	Upchurch, 1995
Diplodocoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neosauropoda	stated with evidence	Sereno, 1998
Diplodocoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neosauropoda	stated without evidence	Wilson and Sereno, 1998
Diplodocoidea	superfamily	belongs to Sauropoda	stated with evidence	Dong, 1998
Diplodocoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neosauropoda	stated with evidence	Sereno, 1999
Diplodocoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neosauropoda	stated without evidence	Sereno et al., 1999
Diplodocoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neosauropoda	stated with evidence	Wilson, 2002
Diplodocoidea	superfamily	belongs to Sauropoda	stated without evidence	Harris and Dodson, 2004
Diplodocoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neosauropoda	stated without evidence	Gallina and Apesteguía, 2005
Diplodocoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neosauropoda	stated with evidence	Royo-Torres et al., 2006
Diplodocoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neosauropoda	stated without evidence	Moser et al., 2006
Diplodocoidea	superfamily	belongs to Neosauropoda	stated with evidence	Allain and Aquesbi, 2008

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

180 - 168 Ma
Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

93.5 - 89.3 Ma
Late/Upper 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)

P. Upchurch. 1995. The evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 349:365-390

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Amphicoelias ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	5	161 Ma Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Haplocanthosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	7	157 Ma Jurassic	157 Ma Jurassic
Diplodocimorpha ✝ unranked clade	listed (PBDB)	318	180 Ma Early Jurassic	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1871	Ceteosaurus glymptonensis Phillips p. 291
1871	Cetiosaurus glymptonensis Phillips p. 291
1888	Cetiosaurus glymptonensis Lydekker p. 138
1890	Cetiosaurus glymptonensis Woodward and Sherborn p. 214
1890	Cetiosaurus glymptonensis Zittel p. 705
1900	Cetiosaurus glymptonensis Sauvage p. 504
1905	Cetiosaurus glymptonensis Williston p. 344
1970	Cetiosaurus glymptonensis Steel p. 64
1979	Cetiosaurus glymptonensis Jain et al. p. 206
1990	Cetiosauriscus glymptonensis McIntosh p. 350
1995	Diplodocoidea Upchurch
1997	Diplodocoidea Sereno p. 444
1997	Diplodocoidea Upchurch p. 82A
1998	Diplodocoidea Dong p. 84
1998	Diplodocoidea Sereno p. 63
1998	Diplodocoidea Wilson and Sereno p. 54 fig. 44

Year	Name and Author
1999	Diplodocoidea Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
1999	Diplodocoidea Sereno et al. p. 1346 fig. 4
2002	Diplodocoidea Wilson p. 240 fig. 13
2004	Diplodocoidea Harris and Dodson p. 198
2004	Diplodocoidea Upchurch et al. p. 263
2005	Diplodocoidea Gallina and Apesteguía p. 159 fig. 5
2005	Diplodocoidea Taylor and Naish pp. 2-3 fig. 1
2006	Diplodocoidea Moser et al. p. 36
2006	Diplodocoidea Royo-Torres et al. p. 1926 fig. 3
2007	Rebbachisauroidea Apesteguía p. 535
2008	Diplodocoidea Allain and Aquesbi p. 403
2010	Diplodocoidea Suteethorn et al.
2012	Diplodocoidea D'Emic
2015	Diplodocoidea Tschopp et al.
2015	Diplodocoidea Xing et al.
2019	Diplodocoidea Mannion et al.

References

Upchurch P. (1995) The evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 349, 365-390

Phillips J. , Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1-523

Lydekker R. , Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London, 1-309

Woodward A. S., Sherborn C. D. , A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata. Dulao & Company, London, 1-396

Zittel K. A. v. , Handbuch der Palaeontologie. I. Abteilung Paleozoologie. III. Band. Vertebrata (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves) [Handbook of Paleontology. Division I. Paleozoology. Volume III. Vertebrata (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves)], xii-900

Sauvage H.-E. Note sur les Poissons et les Reptiles du Jurassique inférieur du département de l'Indre [Note on the fishes and reptiles from the Lower Jurassic of the department of Indre], Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 28, 500-504

Steel R. (1970) Part 14. Saurischia, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1-87

McIntosh J. S. (1990) Sauropoda, The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley, 345-401

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

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

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

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

D'Emic M. D. (2012) The early evolution of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166, 624-671

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

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

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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