Eusauropoda

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Eusauropods
Temporal range: Early JurassicLate Cretaceous, 175–65.5Ma
Skull of Jobaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Gravisauria
Clade: Eusauropoda
Upchurch, 1995
Subgroups[1]

Eusauropoda (meaning "true sauropods") is a clade of sauropod dinosaurs consisting of all sauropods closer to titanosaurs such as Saltasaurus than to primitive sauropods like Vulcanodon. It was named by Paul Upchurch in 1995.[2]

References

  1. Holtz, Thomas R. Jr. (2012) Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages, Winter 2011 Appendix.
  2. Upchurch, P. (1995). "The evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 349: 365-390.
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