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Austrosaurus
Taxonomy
Austrosaurus was named by Longman (1933). Its type is Austrosaurus mckillopi.
It was considered a nomen dubium by Mannion et al. (2013).
It was assigned to Cetiosauridae by Longman (1933); to Sauropoda by Kuhn (1939), Tatarinov (1964); to Cetiosaurinae by Coombs and Molnar (1981); to Brachiosauridae by Romer (1966), Carroll (1988); to Sauropoda by Huene (1944), Romer (1956), Steel (1970), McIntosh (1990); to Sauropoda by Molnar (1992); to Titanosauriformes by Salgado and Calvo (1997), Wilson (2002); to Lithostrotia by Royo-Torres et al. (2006); to Titanosauria by Molnar (2001), Upchurch et al. (2004), Molnar and Salisbury (2005), Mannion and Calvo (2011); and to Somphospondyli by Poropat et al. (2017), Poropat et al. (2020), Poropat et al. (2023).
It was considered a nomen dubium by Mannion et al. (2013).
It was assigned to Cetiosauridae by Longman (1933); to Sauropoda by Kuhn (1939), Tatarinov (1964); to Cetiosaurinae by Coombs and Molnar (1981); to Brachiosauridae by Romer (1966), Carroll (1988); to Sauropoda by Huene (1944), Romer (1956), Steel (1970), McIntosh (1990); to Sauropoda by Molnar (1992); to Titanosauriformes by Salgado and Calvo (1997), Wilson (2002); to Lithostrotia by Royo-Torres et al. (2006); to Titanosauria by Molnar (2001), Upchurch et al. (2004), Molnar and Salisbury (2005), Mannion and Calvo (2011); and to Somphospondyli by Poropat et al. (2017), Poropat et al. (2020), Poropat et al. (2023).
Species
A. mckillopi (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Austrosaurus Longman |
| 1939 | Austrosaurus Kuhn p. 112 |
| 1944 | Austrosaurus Huene p. 449 |
| 1956 | Austrosaurus Romer p. 624 |
| 1964 | Austrosaurus Tatarinov p. 552 |
| 1966 | Austrosaurus Romer p. 370 |
| 1970 | Austrosaurus Steel p. 81 |
| 1981 | Austrosaurus Coombs, Jr. and Molnar p. 358 |
| 1988 | Austrosaurus Carroll |
| 1990 | Austrosaurus McIntosh p. 398 |
| 1992 | Austrosaurus Molnar p. 265 |
| 1997 | Austrosaurus Salgado and Calvo p. 45 |
| 2001 | Austrosaurus Molnar p. 144 |
| 2002 | Austrosaurus Wilson p. 248 |
| 2004 | Austrosaurus Upchurch et al. p. 267 |
| 2005 | Austrosaurus Molnar and Salisbury p. 457 |
| 2006 | Austrosaurus Royo-Torres et al. p. 1926 fig. 3 |
| 2011 | Austrosaurus Mannion and Calvo |
| 2017 | Austrosaurus Poropat et al. |
| 2020 | Austrosaurus Poropat et al. p. 1 |
| 2023 | Austrosaurus Poropat et al. p. 162 |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: infrao = infraorder | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Albian or 106.30000 to 100.50000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Albian | Australia (Queensland) | A. mckillopi (35273) |