Apatosaurinae
Appearance
Apatosaurines Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Skeleton of an apatosaurine (either Apatosaurus or Brontosaurus), American Museum of Natural History 460 | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Superfamily: | †Diplodocoidea |
Family: | †Diplodocidae |
(unranked): | †Apatosaurinae Janensch, 1929 |
Genera[1] | |
Apatosaurinae is the name of a subfamily of diplodocid sauropods that existed between 157 and 150 million years ago in North America. The group includes two genera for certain, Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus, with at least five species. Atlantosaurus and Amphicoelias might also belong to this group.[1]
Below is a cladogram of apatosaurinae interrelationships based on Tschopp et al., 2015.[1]
Diplodocidae |
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References
- ^ a b c Tschopp, E.; Mateus, O. V.; Benson, R. B. J. (2015). "A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)". PeerJ. 3: e857. doi:10.7717/peerj.857. PMC 4393826. PMID 25870766.
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