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Apatosaurinae

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Apatosaurinae was named by Janensch (1929). It is not extant. Its type is Apatosaurus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Atlantosaurinae by Steel (1970); it was reranked as the unranked clade Apatosaurinae by Tschopp et al. (2015).

It was assigned to Titanosauridae by Romer (1956); to Diplodocidae by Tschopp et al. (2015); and to Diplodocidae by Taylor and Naish (2005) and Foster and Peterson (2016).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1878Atlantosaurus immanis King p. 346
1878Atlantosaurus immanis Marsh
1879Atlantosaurus immanis Marsh p. 89
1880Atlantosaurus immanis Sauvage p. 523
1882Atlantosaurus immanis Quenstedt p. 188
1888Atlantosaurus immanis Lydekker p. 145
1890Atlantosaurus immanis Zittel p. 706
1893Atlantosaurus immanis Winkler p. 101
1896Atlantosaurus immanis Marsh figs. Pl. 16
1897Atlantosaurus immanis Marsh p. 489
1898Atlantosaurus immanis Woodward p. 201
1900Atlantosaurus immanis Van Den Broeck p. 82
1901Atlantosaurus immanis Gadow p. 419
1901Atlantosaurus immanis Nopcsa p. 204
1902Atlantosaurus immanis Hay p. 484
1906Atlantosaurus immanis Cannon p. 116
1906Atlantosaurus immanis Sauvage p. 497
1915Titanosaurus immanis Williston p. 126
1916Atlantosaurus immanis Mook p. 136
1926Atlantosaurus immanis Lull p. 458
1928Atlantosaurus immunis Perrier p. 3086
1929Apatosaurinae Janensch p. 31
1930Atlantosaurus immanis Hay p. 194
1931Atlantosaurus immanis Johnson p. 358
1934Atlantosaurus immanis Swinton p. 33
1956Apatosaurinae Romer p. 622
1970Atlantosaurus immanis Steel p. 79
1975Atlantosaurus immanis Mcintosh and Berman p. 198
1980Atlantosaurus immanis Darby and Ojakangas p. 549
2005Apatosaurinae Taylor and Naish pp. 3-4
2015Apatosaurinae Tschopp et al.
2016Apatosaurinae Foster and Peterson p. 439

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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
subfamilyApatosaurinae

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.

Subfm. †Apatosaurinae Janensch 1929
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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]
G. †Brontosaurus Marsh 1879
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†Brontosaurus excelsus Marsh 1879
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Invalid names: Brontosaurus amplus Marsh 1881 [synonym]
†Brontosaurus parvus Peterson and Gilmore 1902
†Brontosaurus yahnahpin Filla and Redman 1994
Invalid names: Brontosaurus giganteus Anonymous 1898 [nomen nudum], Elosaurus Peterson and Gilmore 1902 [synonym], Eobrontosaurus Bakker 1998 [synonym]
Invalid names: Atlantosaurus immanis Marsh 1878 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteinfrao
Entire body: yesinfrao
Adult length: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult width: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult height: 10 to < 100infrao
Maximum body mass: 30000 kgg
Minimum body mass: 10000 kgg
Thickness: thickinfrao
Architecture: compact or denseinfrao
Form: sphericalinfrao
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partsinfrao
Grouping: gregariousinfrao
Environment: terrestrialinfrao
Locomotion: actively mobileinfrao
Life habit: ground dwellinginfrao
Diet: herbivoreinfrao
Reproduction: oviparousinfrao
Dispersal: direct/internalinfrao
Dispersal 2: mobileinfrao
Created: 2004-12-14 12:49:10
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:49:10
Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder
References: Peczkis 1995, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to the top of the Early/Lower Tithonian or 155.70000 to 145.00000 Ma

Collections (84 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Oxfordian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian161.2 - 150.8USA (Wyoming) Apatosaurus sp. (126540)
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1USA (Colorado) Apatosaurus sp. (48171 49621 154924)
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1USA (Montana) Apatosaurus sp. (49624)
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1USA (Wyoming) Apatosaurus sp. (46460 46465 57903 58510 75453 176983)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0USA (Utah) Apatosaurus sp. (58514 58517 96826 220417) Brontosaurus parvus (58516)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0USA (Montana) Sauropoda indet. (231532)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0USA (New Mexico) Apatosaurus sp. (38867) Brontosaurus sp. (225131)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0USA (Wyoming) Apatosaurus excelsus (57898 57900 57902 142335 142336 142337) Apatosaurus sp. (39339 39342 48837 49627 49628 55320 55486 57894 57896 58512 192748 207747 207748 207749 227262 231567) Apatosaurus sp., Apatosaurus louisae (52815) Apatosaurus sp., Brontosaurus sp. (22648) Apatosaurus yahnahpin (55487 230771) Brontosaurus amplus (39369) Brontosaurus excelsus (39368) Brontosaurus giganteus (221673) Brontosaurus sp. (13352 55323 74000 188398) Elosaurus parvus, Brontosaurus sp. (52816)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0USA (Arizona) Apatosaurus sp. (70024)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0USA (Colorado) Apatosaurinae indet. (48146) Apatosaurus ajax (39376) Apatosaurus ajax, Atlantosaurus immanis, Apatosaurus laticollis (13341) Apatosaurus laticollis (48128) Apatosaurus sp. (11611 231617) Brontosaurus excelsus (36576) Sauropoda indet. (177497)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8USA (Wyoming) Apatosaurus sp. (22650)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian155.7 - 145.0USA (Wyoming) Apatosaurus sp. (49577)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian155.7 - 145.0USA (Colorado) Apatosaurus ajax (28382) Apatosaurus sp. (45975) Brontosaurus sp., Diplodocus sp. (28366)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Tithonian155.7 - 145.0USA (Colorado) Apatosaurus sp. (38883 70032 207744 231621)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Tithonian155.7 - 145.0USA (Oklahoma) Apatosaurus parvus, Brontosaurus excelsus (49338) Apatosaurus sp. (49596 49597 56422)
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0USA (South Dakota) Apatosaurus sp. (49625 49630)
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0USA (Utah) Apatosaurus sp. (225118 231582) Apatosaurus sp., Brontosaurus sp. (46439)
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0USA (Colorado) Apatosaurus excelsus (48161)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0USA (Colorado) Apatosaurus sp. (71476)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0USA (Utah) Apatosaurus sp. (231581) Apatosaurus sp., Apatosaurus louisae (21852)