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Rhoetosaurus
Taxonomy
Rhoetosaurus was named by Longman (1926). Its type is Rhoetosaurus brownei.
It was assigned to Camarasauridae by Longman (1926) and Longman (1927); to Cardiodontinae by Huene (1927); to Cetiosaurinae by Kuhn (1939); to Brachiosauridae by Romer (1966); to Morosauridae by Charig (1967); to Shunosaurinae by McIntosh (1990); to Cetiosaurinae by Romer (1956), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Coombs and Molnar (1981) and Dong (1992); to Neosauropoda by Upchurch (1995); to Cetiosauridae by Cabrera (1948), Tatarinov (1964), Bonaparte (1986), Carroll (1988) and Dong (1998); to Sauropoda by Hill et al. (1966) and Wilson (2002); to Eusauropoda by Upchurch et al. (2004); and to Gravisauria by Poropat et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Camarasauridae by Longman (1926) and Longman (1927); to Cardiodontinae by Huene (1927); to Cetiosaurinae by Kuhn (1939); to Brachiosauridae by Romer (1966); to Morosauridae by Charig (1967); to Shunosaurinae by McIntosh (1990); to Cetiosaurinae by Romer (1956), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Coombs and Molnar (1981) and Dong (1992); to Neosauropoda by Upchurch (1995); to Cetiosauridae by Cabrera (1948), Tatarinov (1964), Bonaparte (1986), Carroll (1988) and Dong (1998); to Sauropoda by Hill et al. (1966) and Wilson (2002); to Eusauropoda by Upchurch et al. (2004); and to Gravisauria by Poropat et al. (2023).
Species
R. brownei (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1926 | Rhoetosaurus Longman p. 185 figs. 28-32 |
| 1927 | Rhoetosaurus Huene p. 460 |
| 1927 | Rhoetosaurus Longman p. 17 |
| 1939 | Rhoetosaurus Kuhn p. 86 |
| 1948 | Rhoetosaurus Cabrera p. 38 |
| 1956 | Rhoetosaurus Romer p. 620 |
| 1964 | Rhoetosaurus Tatarinov p. 544 |
| 1966 | Rhaetosaurus Hill et al. p. j.30 |
| 1966 | Rhoetosaurus Romer p. 370 |
| 1967 | Rhoetosaurus Charig p. 713 |
| 1970 | Rhoetosaurus Steel p. 66 |
| 1970 | Rhoetosaurus Swinton p. 160 |
| 1981 | Rhoetosaurus Coombs, Jr. and Molnar p. 358 |
| 1986 | Rhoetosaurus Bonaparte p. 250 |
| 1988 | Rhoetosaurus Carroll |
| 1990 | Rhoetosaurus McIntosh p. 380 |
| 1992 | Rhoetosaurus Dong p. 69 |
| 1995 | Rhoetosaurus Upchurch pp. 374-375 |
| 1998 | Rhoetosaurus Dong p. 84 |
| 2002 | Rhoetosaurus Wilson p. 249 |
| 2004 | Rhoetosaurus Upchurch et al. p. 300 |
| 2023 | Rhoetosaurus Poropat et al. p. 160 |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: infrao = infraorder | |||||
| Reference: Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: Middle Oxfordian or 161.20000 to 155.70000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Oxfordian | Australia (Queensland) | R. brownei (39235) |