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Alamosaurus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Alamosaurus was named by Gilmore (1922).

It was assigned to Sauropoda by Gilmore (1922); to Diplodocidae by Hay (1930); to Atlantosauridae by Russell (1930); to Sauropoda by Lull (1924) and Tatarinov (1964); to Cetiosauridae by Powell (1973); to Antarctosauridae by Breithaupt (1985); to Titanosaurinae by Romer (1956), Charig (1967), Steel (1970), Kues et al. (1980) and Casanovas et al. (1987); to Titanosauroidea by Upchurch (1997); to Titanosauria by Wilson and Sereno (1998); to Opisthocoelicaudiinae by Wilson (2002), You et al. (2004), Curry Rogers (2005), Calvo et al. (2007), González Riga et al. (2009) and Suteethorn et al. (2010); to Titanosauridae by Huene (1927), Huene (1927), Huene (1927), Huene (1929), Huene (1929), Stromer (1932), Huene (1941), Gilmore (1946), Romer (1966), Molnar (1980), Lehman (1981), Bonaparte (1984), Russell (1984), Carroll (1988), Lucas and Hunt (1989), McIntosh (1990), McIntosh (1990), Le Loeuff (1991), Currie (1992), Upchurch (1995), Upchurch (1995), Jacobs et al. (1996), Salgado (1996), Novas (1997), McIntosh (1997), Ryan (1997), Dodson (1997), Salgado and Calvo (1997), Salgado et al. (1997), Prasad and Sahni (1999), Maxwell and Cifelli (2000), Smith et al. (2001), Calvo and González Riga (2003), Apesteguía (2005), Moser et al. (2006) and Jasinski et al. (2011); to Eutitanosauria by Powell (2003) and Filippi et al. (2011); to Opisthocoelicaudinae by Calvo et al. (2007) and González Riga and Ortiz David (2014); to Somphospondyli by Xing et al. (2015); to Lithostrotia by Upchurch et al. (2004), Ksepka and Norell (2010), Mocho et al. (2014) and Filippi et al. (2019); to Saltasauridae by Wilson and Upchurch (2003), Wilson and Mohabey (2006), Zaher et al. (2011), Coria et al. (2013), Mannion et al. (2013), Poropat et al. (2016), González Riga et al. (2016) and Páramo et al. (2020); and to Saltasaurinae by D'Emic (2012) and Navarro et al. (2022).

Species
A. sanjuanensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1922Alamosaurus Gilmore pp. 1-9 figs. 1-2
1924Alamosaurus Lull p. 270
1927Alamosaurus Huene p. 126
1929Alamosaurus Huene p. 118
1930Alamosaurus Hay p. 201
1930Alamosaurus Russell p. 157
1932Alamosaurus Stromer p. 19
1941Alamosaurus Huene p. 90
1946Alamosaurus Gilmore p. 30
1956Alamosaurus Romer p. 622
1964Alamosaurus Tatarinov p. 552
1966Alamosaurus Romer p. 370
1967Alamosaurus Charig p. 713
1970Alamosaurus Steel p. 74
1973Alamosaurus Powell p. 118
1980Alamosaurus Kues et al. p. 867
1980Alamosaurus Molnar p. 140
1981Alamosaurus Lehman p. 198
1984Alamosaurus Bonaparte p. 139
1984Alamosaurus Russell p. 27
1985Almosaurus Breithaupt p. 169
1987Alamosaurus Casanovas et al. p. 98
1988Alamosaurus Carroll
1989Alamosaurus Lucas and Hunt p. 82
1990Alamosaurus McIntosh p. 57
1991Alamosaurus Le Loeuff p. 105
1992Alamosaurus Currie p. 244
1995Alamosaurus Upchurch p. 253
1996Alamosaurus Jacobs et al. p. 600
1996Alamosaurus Salgado p. 358
1997Alamosaurus Dodson p. 11
1997Alamosaurus McIntosh p. 658
1997Alamosaurus Novas p. 685
1997Alamosaurus Ryan p. 391
1997Alamosaurus Salgado and Calvo p. 45
1997Alamosaurus Salgado et al. p. 25 fig. 19
1997Alamosaurus Upchurch p. 82A
1998Alamosaurus Wilson and Sereno p. 22
1999Alamosaurus Prasad and Sahni p. 382
2000Alamosaurus Maxwell and Cifelli p. 19
2001Alamosaurus Smith et al. p. 1705 fig. 3
2002Alamosaurus Wilson p. 240 fig. 13
2003Alamosaurus Calvo and González Riga fig. 4
2003Alamosaurus Powell p. 157
2003Alamosaurus Wilson and Upchurch p. 156 fig. 21
2004Alamosaurus Upchurch et al. p. 268
2004Alamosaurus You et al. p. 910 fig. 6
2005Alamosaurus Apesteguía p. 262
2005Alamosaurus Curry Rogers pp. 69-71 figs. 2.11-2.13
2006Alamosaurus Moser et al. p. 46
2006Alamosaurus Wilson and Mohabey p. 477
2007Alamosaurus Calvo et al. p. 497 fig. 14
2007Alamosaurus Calvo et al. p. 533 fig. 3
2009Alamosaurus González Riga et al. p. 144 fig. 11
2010Alamosaurus Ksepka and Norell
2010Alamosaurus Suteethorn et al.
2011Alamosaurus Filippi et al.
2011Alamosaurus Jasinski et al. p. 233
2011Alamosaurus Zaher et al. p. 8 fig. 7
2012Alamosaurus D'Emic
2013Alamosaurus Coria et al.
2013Alamosaurus Mannion et al.
2014Alamosaurus González Riga and Ortiz David
2014Alamosaurus Mocho et al.
2015Alamosaurus Xing et al.
2016Alamosaurus González Riga et al.
2016Alamosaurus Poropat et al.
2019Alamosaurus Filippi et al.
2020Alamosaurus Páramo et al. p. 398
2022Alamosaurus Navarro et al. p. 344 fig. 13

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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()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropoda()
—Gravisauria
—Eusauropoda
—Neosauropoda
—Macronaria
—Titanosauriformes
—Titanosauria
—Lithostrotia
superfamilySaltasauroideaPowell 1992
—Lohuecosauria
—Saltasauridae()
subfamilySaltasaurinae
genusAlamosaurus

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. †Alamosaurus Gilmore 1922
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†Alamosaurus sanjuanensis Gilmore 1922
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available