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Apatosaurus

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Taxonomy
Apatosaurus was named by Marsh (1877). It is the type genus of Apatosaurinae.

It was synonymized subjectively with Atlantosaurus by Steel (1970); it was synonymized subjectively with Amphicoelias by Galiano and Albersdörfer (2010).

It was assigned to Sauropoda by Williston (1878); to Sauropoda by Marsh (1878), Marsh (1879) and Quenstedt (1882); to Opisthocoelia by Riggs (1903); to Camarasaurinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Atlantosauridae by Marsh (1877), Marsh (1881), Sauvage (1882), Dollo (1884), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Zittel (1890), Marsh (1893), Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Marsh (1897), Marsh (1898), Nopcsa (1901), Mansel-Pleydell (1902), Hay (1902), Huene (1908), Huene (1908), Huene (1909), von Zittel (1911), Tornier (1913), Lull (1924), Huene (1929) and Hay (1930); to Brachiosauridae by Tatarinov (1964) and Romer (1966); to Atlantosaurinae by Swinton (1970); to Titanosauridae by Van Valen (1969) and Madsen and Miller (1979); to Apatosauridae by Huene (1927), Galton (1977) and Bonaparte (1999); to Diplodocinae by McIntosh (1990), McIntosh (1990) and Salgado (1999); to Diplodocidae by Berman and McIntosh (1978), Charig (1980), McIntosh (1981), Russell (1984), Bonaparte (1986), Bonaparte (1986), Carroll (1988), Miller et al. (1991), Mcintosh et al. (1992), Salgado (1993), Britt and Naylor (1994), Carpenter and McIntosh (1994), Upchurch (1995), Upchurch (1995), Calvo and Salgado (1995), Wilson and Smith (1996), McIntosh (1997), Ryan and Vickaryous (1997), Dodson (1997), Sereno (1997), Dong (1998), Wilson and Sereno (1998), Wilson (2002), Upchurch et al. (2004), Upchurch et al. (2004), Harris and Dodson (2004), Apesteguía (2005), Foster (2005), McIntosh (2005), Gallina and Apesteguía (2005), Rauhut et al. (2005), Chure et al. (2006), Salgado et al. (2006), Remes (2006), Suteethorn et al. (2010), Mateus and Milàn (2010), Whitlock (2011), Ibiricu et al. (2012), Mannion et al. (2012), Tschopp and Mateus (2013) and Mocho et al. (2014); to Apatosaurinae by Tschopp et al. (2015); to Diplodocoidea by Xing et al. (2015); and to Apatosaurinae by Romer (1956), Coombs and Molnar (1981), Taylor and Naish (2005) and Foster and Peterson (2016).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Apatosaurus Marsh
1877Titanosaurus Marsh p. 87
1877Apatosaurus Marsh pp. 514-515
1878Apatosaurus Marsh p. 412
1878Apatosaurus Williston pp. 44-45
1878Titanosaurus Williston p. 45
1879Apatosaurus Marsh pp. 86-88
1881Apatosaurus Marsh
1882Apatosaurus Quenstedt p. 188
1882Titanosaurus Quenstedt p. 188
1882Apatosaurus Sauvage p. 35
1884Apatosaurus Dollo p. 298
1884Apatosaurus Marsh p. 68
1885Apatosaurus Marsh p. 764
1890Apatosaurus Zittel p. 706
1893Apatosaurus Marsh p. 437
1895Apatosaurus Marsh
1896Apatosaurus Marsh p. 241
1897Apatosaurus Marsh p. 494
1898Apatosaurus Marsh p. 158
1901Apatosaurus Nopcsa p. 203
1902Apatosaurus Hay p. 485
1902Apatosaurus Mansel-Pleydell p. lxxvi
1903Apatosaurus Riggs
1908Apatosaurus Huene p. 297
1909Apatosaurus Huene p. 14
1911Apatosaurus von Zittel p. 285
1913Apatosaurus Tornier p. 370
1924Apatosaurus Lull p. 234
1927Apatosaurus Huene p. 125
1928Apatosaurus Nopcsa p. 184
1929Apatosaurus Huene p. 118
1930Apatosaurus Hay p. 194
1956Apatosaurus Romer p. 622
1964Apatosaurus Tatarinov p. 547
1966Apatosaurus Romer p. 370
1969Apatosaurus Van Valen p. 624
1970Apatosaurus Swinton pp. 176-177
1977Apatosaurus Galton p. 230
1978Apatosaurus Berman and McIntosh pp. 32-33
1979Apatosaurus Madsen and Miller p. 5
1980Apatosaurus Charig p. 239
1981Apatosaurus Coombs, Jr. and Molnar p. 356
1981Apatosaurus McIntosh p. 23
1984Apatosaurus Russell p. 23
1986Apatosaurus Bonaparte p. 253
1988Apatosaurus Carroll
1990Apatosaurus McIntosh p. 56
1991Apatosaurus Miller et al. p. 40
1992Apatosaurus Mcintosh et al. p. 164
1993Apatosaurus Salgado p. 269
1994Apatosaurus Britt and Naylor p. 260
1994Apatosaurus Carpenter and McIntosh p. 266
1995Apatosaurus Calvo and Salgado p. 30 fig. 18
1995Apatosaurus Upchurch p. 253
1996Apatosaurus Wilson and Smith p. 73A
1997Apatosaurus Dodson p. 11
1997Apatosaurus McIntosh p. 656
1997Apatosaurus Ryan and Vickaryous p. 172
1997Apatosaurus Sereno p. 453
1998Apatosaurus Dong p. 84
1998Apatosaurus Wilson and Sereno p. 17
1999Apatosaurus Bonaparte p. 144
1999Apatosaurus Salgado p. 204
2002Apatosaurus Wilson p. 240 fig. 13
2004Apatosaurus Harris and Dodson p. 207 fig. 4
2004Apatosaurus Upchurch et al. p. 264
2004Apatosaurus Upchurch et al.
2005Apatosaurus Apesteguía p. 256
2005Apatosaurus Foster p. 145
2005Apatosaurus Gallina and Apesteguía p. 159 fig. 5
2005Apatosaurus McIntosh p. 69
2005Apatosaurus Rauhut et al. p. 672 fig. 2
2005Apatosaurus Taylor and Naish pp. 3-4
2006Apatosaurus Chure et al. p. 236
2006Apatosaurus Remes p. 664 fig. 9
2006Apatosaurus Salgado et al. p. 704 fig. 9
2010Apatosaurus Mateus and Milàn p. 254
2010Apatosaurus Suteethorn et al.
2011Apatosaurus Whitlock
2012Apatosaurus Ibiricu et al. p. 226
2012Apatosaurus Mannion et al.
2013Apatosaurus Tschopp and Mateus p. 877 fig. 11
2014Apatosaurus Mocho et al.
2015Apatosaurus Tschopp et al.
2015Apatosaurus Xing et al.
2016Apatosaurus Foster and Peterson p. 434

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Saurischia()
Sauropoda()
Gravisauria
Eusauropoda
Neosauropoda
Diplodocoidea()
Diplodocimorpha
Flagellicaudata
Diplodocidae()
subfamilyApatosaurinae
genusApatosaurus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Apatosaurus Marsh 1877
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Apatosaurus ajax Marsh 1877
Apatosaurus louisae Holland 1915
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Invalid names: Apatosaurus laticollis Marsh 1879 [synonym]
Invalid names: Titanosaurus Marsh 1877 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available