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Tornieria
Taxonomy
Tornieria was named by Sternfeld (1911). Its type is Gigantosaurus robustus.
It was synonymized subjectively with Gigantosaurus by Janensch (1914); it was synonymized subjectively with Amphicoelias by Galiano and Albersdörfer (2010).
It was assigned to Cetiosaurinae by Kuhn (1939); to Sauropoda by Tatarinov (1964); to Titanosaurinae by Romer (1956), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970); to Titanosauridae by Romer (1966), Galton (1977), Molnar (1980), Carroll (1988), Buffetaut (1989), McIntosh (1990); to Diplodocidae by Upchurch et al. (2004), Rauhut et al. (2005), Ksepka and Norell (2010), Whitlock (2011), Whitlock (2011), Ibiricu et al. (2012); to Diplodocoidea by Xing et al. (2015); to Diplodocinae by Remes (2006), Remes (2007), Royo-Torres et al. (2007), Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. (2008), Mannion et al. (2012), Tschopp and Mateus (2013), Foster and Peterson (2016); and to Diplodocinae by Tschopp et al. (2015), Mannion et al. (2019), Mannion and Moore (2025).
It was synonymized subjectively with Gigantosaurus by Janensch (1914); it was synonymized subjectively with Amphicoelias by Galiano and Albersdörfer (2010).
It was assigned to Cetiosaurinae by Kuhn (1939); to Sauropoda by Tatarinov (1964); to Titanosaurinae by Romer (1956), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970); to Titanosauridae by Romer (1966), Galton (1977), Molnar (1980), Carroll (1988), Buffetaut (1989), McIntosh (1990); to Diplodocidae by Upchurch et al. (2004), Rauhut et al. (2005), Ksepka and Norell (2010), Whitlock (2011), Whitlock (2011), Ibiricu et al. (2012); to Diplodocoidea by Xing et al. (2015); to Diplodocinae by Remes (2006), Remes (2007), Royo-Torres et al. (2007), Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. (2008), Mannion et al. (2012), Tschopp and Mateus (2013), Foster and Peterson (2016); and to Diplodocinae by Tschopp et al. (2015), Mannion et al. (2019), Mannion and Moore (2025).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1911 | Tornieria Sternfeld p. 398 |
| 1939 | Tornieria Kuhn p. 87 |
| 1956 | Tornieria Romer p. 622 |
| 1964 | Tornieria Tatarinov p. 552 |
| 1966 | Tornieria Romer p. 370 |
| 1970 | Tornieria Steel p. 78 |
| 1970 | Tornieria Swinton p. 184 |
| 1977 | Tornieria Galton p. 230 |
| 1980 | Tornieria Molnar p. 138 |
| 1988 | Tornieria Carroll |
| 1989 | Tornieria Buffetaut p. 439 |
| 1990 | Tornieria McIntosh p. 397 |
| 2004 | Tornieria Upchurch et al. p. 265 |
| 2005 | Tornieria Rauhut et al. p. 672 fig. 2 |
| 2006 | Tornieria Remes p. 652 |
| 2007 | Tornieria Remes p. 60 |
| 2007 | Tornieria Royo-Torres et al. p. 184 |
| 2008 | Tornieria Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. p. 191 |
| 2010 | Tornieria Ksepka and Norell |
| 2011 | Tornieria Whitlock |
| 2012 | Tornieria Ibiricu et al. p. 227 |
| 2012 | Tornieria Mannion et al. |
| 2013 | Tornieria Tschopp and Mateus p. 877 fig. 11 |
| 2015 | Tornieria Tschopp et al. |
| 2015 | Tornieria Xing et al. |
| 2016 | Tornieria Foster and Peterson p. 439 |
| 2019 | Tornieria Mannion et al. |
| 2025 | Tornieria Mannion and Moore |
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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.
G. †Tornieria Sternfeld 1911
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†Barosaurus africanus gracilis Janensch 1961
†Tornieria africana Fraas 1908
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875, Peczkis 1995 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to the top of the Tithonian or 152.21000 to 143.10000 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | Tanzania (Lindi) | Barosaurus africanus (47151) | |
| Tithonian | Tanzania (Lindi) | Barosaurus africanus (47140 47160 48350 48385) Gigantosaurus africanus (47181) T. sp. (121195) |