Aeolosauridae

Aeolosaurids
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 93.5–65.5Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Suborder: †Sauropodomorpha
Clade: †Titanosauria
Clade: †Lithostrotia
Family: †Aeolosauridae
Franco-Rosas et al., 2004
Genera

Aeolosauridae is an extinct family of titanosaurian dinosaurs known from the late Cretaceous period of Argentina and Brazil. Thomas Holtz (2011) assigned Adamantisaurus, Aeolosaurus, Gondwanatitan, Muyelensaurus, Panamericansaurus, Pitekunsaurus and Rinconsaurus to Aeolosauridae.[1] Rodrigo M. Santucci and Antonio C. de Arruda-Campos (2011) in their cladistic analysis found Aeolosaurus, Gondwanatitan, Maxakalisaurus, Panamericansaurus and Rinconsaurus to be aeolosaurids.[2]

Phylogeny

Aeolosaurini was defined by Franco-Rosas, Salgado, Rosas and Carvalho (2004) as the stem-based taxon that corresponds to the most-inclusive clade containing Aeolosaurus rionegrinus and Gondwanatitan faustoi, but not Saltasaurus loricatus and Opisthocoelicaudia skarzynskii. Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic relationships of Aeolosaurini from Santucci and Arruda-Campos (2011).[2]

Titanosauriformes 

Brachiosaurus

Euhelopus


 Lithostrotia 

Malawisaurus dixeyi

Muyelensaurus pecheni

Nemegtosaurus mongoliensis

Rapetosaurus krausei


Baurutitan britoi

Isisaurus colberti


Alamosaurus sanjuanensis

Opisthocoelicaudia skarzynskii

Neuquensaurus australis

Saltasaurus loricatus






 Aeolosaurini 

Maxakalisaurus topai

Panamericansaurus schroederi

Rinconsaurus caudamirus

Gondwanatitan faustoi

Aeolosaurus maximus

Aeolosaurus colhuehuapensis

Aeolosaurus rionegrinus











References

  1. ↑ Holtz, Thomas R. Jr. (2011). Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages, Winter 2010 Appendix.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rodrigo M. Santucci and Antonio C. de Arruda-Campos (2011). "A new sauropod (Macronaria, Titanosauria) from the Adamantina Formation, Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous of Brazil and the phylogenetic relationships of Aeolosaurini" (PDF). Zootaxa 3085: 1–33.