Macronaria
| Macronarians Temporal range: Middle Jurassic–Late Cretaceous | |
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| Several macronarian sauropods | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Suborder: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Neosauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria Wilson & Sereno, 1998 |
Macronaria is a clade of sauropod dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) to Late Cretaceous Periods of what are now North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. The name means 'large nostrils' (from Greek makros 'big' + Latin nares 'nostrils'), in reference to the large nasal openings high on the head that probably supported fleshy resonating chambers. Macronaria consists of a single main group, Titanosauriformes, along with several more basal taxa. Titanosauriformes in turn contains the brachiosaurids and the titanosaurians and is one of the largest sauropod groups, which also contains some of the most of the longest, tallest and most massive dinosaurs of all time.
Systematics
Taxonomy after Mannion et al. (2013)[1] and D'Emic (2012)[2] unless otherwise noted.
- Branch Macronaria
- Abrosaurus[3]
- Aragosaurus
- Camarasaurus
- Daanosaurus
- Dongbeititan
- Galveosaurus
- Janenschia
- Lusotitan
- Tehuelchesaurus
- Clade Titanosauriformes
- Australodocus
- Baotianmansaurus
- "Brachiosaurus" nougaredi
- Duriatitan[4]
- Fukuititan
- Fusuisaurus
- Jiutaisaurus
- Ornithopsis[5]
- Sonorasaurus
- Family Brachiosauridae
- Branch Somphospondyli
- Agustinia[1]
- Angolatitan
- Argentinosaurus
- Astrophocaudia
- Brontomerus
- Chubutisaurus
- Diamantinasaurus
- Gobititan
- Huanghetitan
- Liubangosaurus
- Ligabuesaurus
- Malarguesaurus
- Pelorosaurus
- Phuwiangosaurus
- Pukyongosaurus
- Ruyangosaurus
- Sauroposeidon
- Sonidosaurus
- Tangvayosaurus
- Tastavinsaurus
- Wintonotitan
- Unnamed Clade[6]
- Family Euhelopodidae
- Node Titanosauria
Phylogeny
The cladogram below follows José Luis Barco Rodríguez (2010).[7]
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The cladogram below follows José L. Carballido, Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Diego Pol and Leonardo Salgado (2011).[8]
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Simplified cladogram of Macronaria after D'Emic (2012).[2]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, R. N. Barnes and O. Mateus. 2013. Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168:98-206
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 D'Emic, M. D. (2012). "The early evolution of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166 (3): 624–671. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00853.x.
- ↑ P. Upchurch, P. M. Barrett, and P. Dodson. 2004. Sauropoda. In D. B. Weishampel, H. Osmolska, and P. Dodson (eds.), The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 259-322
- ↑ Paul M. Barrett, Roger B.J. Benson and Paul Upchurch (2010). "Dinosaurs of Dorset: Part II, the sauropod dinosaurs (Saurischia, Sauropoda) with additional comments on the theropods". Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 131: 113–126.
- ↑ P. D. Mannion. 2010. A revision of the sauropod dinosaur genus 'Bothriospondylus' with a redescription of the type material of the Middle Jurassic form 'B. madagascariensis. Palaeontology 53(2):277-296
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Lü, J.; Xu, L.; Pu, H.; Zhang, X.; Zhang, Y.; Jia, S.; Chang, H.; Zhang, J. et al. (2013). "A new sauropod dinosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the late Early Cretaceous of the Ruyang Basin (central China)". Cretaceous Research.
- ↑ José Luis Barco Rodríguez (2010). Implicaciones filogenéticas y paleobiogeográficas del saurópodo Galvesaurus herreroi Barco, Canudo, Cuenca-Bescós y Ruiz-Omeñaca 2005.
- ↑ José L. Carballido, Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Diego Pol and Leonardo Salgado (2011). "Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Tehuelchesaurus benitezii (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (2): 605–662. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00723.x.
- Upchurch, P. (1998). "The Phylogenetic relationships of sauropod dinosaurs". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 128 (1): 43–103. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb00569.x.