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Sauropoda (sauropod)

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Sauropoda was named by Marsh (1878).

It was reranked as the suborder Sauropoda by Williston (1878), Anonymous (1879), Seeley (1879), Dollo (1884), Zittel (1890), Winkler (1893), Sauvage (1896), Sauvage (1898), Woodward (1898), Van Den Broeck (1900), Sauvage (1900), Nopcsa (1901), Mansel-Pleydell (1902), Arldt (1909), Sauvage (1914), Janensch (1914), Matthew (1915), McKelvey (1920), Joleaud (1922), Lull (1924), Huene (1927), Nopcsa (1928), Huene (1929), Hay (1930), Huene (1933), Swinton (1934), Roxo (1937), Kuhn (1939), Kuhn (1946), Lapparent (1947), Huene (1958), Delair (1960), Parsch (1963), Tatarinov (1964), Kuhn (1966), Haubold (1971), Delair (1973), Bakker and Galton (1974), Haubold (1974), McIntosh (1981), Martinelli and Forasiepi (2004), Chure et al. (2006); it was synonymized subjectively with Opisthocoelia by Cope (1883), Hay (1902), Riggs (1903); it was reranked as the order Sauropoda by Dollo (1885), Baur (1887), Gadow (1898), Gadow (1901), Perrier (1928), Moyano-Paz et al. (2022); it was synonymized subjectively with Opisthocoelia by Osborn (1904); it was synonymized subjectively with Diplodocia by Tornier (1913); it was reranked as the superorder Sauropoda by Bakker (1986); it was reranked as the unranked clade Sauropoda by Jaekel (1911), Sereno (1989), Salgado et al. (1997), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Wilson and Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Tang et al. (2001), Leal and Azevedo (2003), Upchurch et al. (2004), Knoll (2005), Upchurch et al. (2007), Casal et al. (2007), Smith and Pol (2007), García et al. (2008), Previtera and González Riga (2008), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Novas et al. (2011), Bittencourt and Langer (2011), Taylor et al. (2011), Lacovara et al. (2014), McPhee et al. (2015), Ibiricu et al. (2017), Lim et al. (2023), Agnolin et al. (2023), Agnolín et al. (2023), Zhang et al. (2024), Pérez-Moreno et al. (2024), Milàn and Mateus (2024).

It was assigned to Dinosauri by Quenstedt (1882); to Dinosauria by Baur (1887); to Dinosauri by Gadow (1897); to Praepubici by Jaekel (1911); to Dinosauria by Williston (1878), Marsh (1878), Seeley (1879), Marsh (1881), Marsh (1882), Dollo (1884), Marsh (1885), Lydekker (1885), Lydekker (1888), Zittel (1890), Marsh (1894), Marsh (1895), Sauvage (1896), Marsh (1896), Sauvage (1898), Woodward (1898), Van Den Broeck (1900), Sauvage (1900), Nopcsa (1901), Mansel-Pleydell (1902), Hatcher (1903), von Zittel (1911), Sauvage (1914), Janensch (1914), McKelvey (1920), Joleaud (1922); to Dinosauria by Anonymous (1879), Marsh (1884), Dollo (1885), Winkler (1893), Gadow (1898), Gadow (1901), Perrier (1928); to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1926), Huene (1929), Huene (1948), Huene (1954); to Sauropodomorpha by Bakker and Galton (1974); to Phytodinosauria by Bakker (1986); to Sauropodomorpha by Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Reig (1970), Swinton (1970), Ellenberger (1972), Krebs (1974), del Corro (1975), Jain et al. (1975), Baird and Horner (1979), Benton (1979), Ostrom (1980), McGinnis (1982), Santafé et al. (1982), Dong et al. (1983), Russell (1984), Buscalioni and Sanz (1987), Benton (1990); to Saurischia by Arldt (1909), Huene (1909), Lull (1915), Matthew (1915), Nopcsa (1923), Lull (1924), Huene (1927), Nopcsa (1928), Huene (1929), Hay (1930), Huene (1933), Swinton (1936), Roxo (1937), Kuhn (1939), Kuhn (1946), Lapparent (1947), Romer (1956), Huene (1958), Delair (1960), Parsch (1963), Tatarinov (1964), Colbert (1964), Kuhn (1966), Steel (1970), Haubold (1971), Delair (1973), Haubold (1974), Bonaparte (1978), McIntosh (1981), Zhao (1983), Martinelli and Forasiepi (2004), Chure et al. (2006); to Anchisauria by Upchurch et al. (2007), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011); to Massopoda by Novas et al. (2011); to Saurischia by Parks (1935), Gorscak et al. (2014); to Sauropodomorpha by Sereno (1989), Salgado et al. (1997), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Wilson and Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Tang et al. (2001), Leal and Azevedo (2003), Upchurch et al. (2004), Knoll (2005), Casal et al. (2007), Smith and Pol (2007), García et al. (2008), Bittencourt and Langer (2011), Xing et al. (2015); to Sauropodiformes by McPhee et al. (2015); to Saurischia by Swinton (1934), Previtera and González Riga (2008), Taylor et al. (2011), Lacovara et al. (2014), Ibiricu et al. (2017), Moyano-Paz et al. (2022), Lim et al. (2023), Agnolin et al. (2023), Agnolín et al. (2023); and to Dinosauria by Zhang et al. (2024), Pérez-Moreno et al. (2024), Milàn and Mateus (2024).

Subtaxa
Acanthopholis platypus, Aepisaurus, Agustiniidae, Archaeodontosaurus, Asiatosaurus, Astrodon johnstoni, Atlantosauridae (syn. Apatosauridae), Atlantosaurus, Barosaurus affinis, Blikanasauridae, Bothriospondylidae, Bothriospondylus elongatus, Bothrosauropodidae, Bothrosauropodoidea, Brachiosaurus nougaredi, Brontopodidae, Brontopodus (syn. Chuxiongpus), Brontosauridae, Bruhathkayosaurus, Calorckosauripus, Camarasauroidea, Campylodoniscus (syn. Campylodon), Cetiosaurus epioolithicus, Cetiosaurus hypoolithicus, Cetiosaurus longus, Cetiosaurus medius, Chiayusaurus, Chinshakiangosaurus, Chondrosteosaurus, Chubutisauridae, Clasmodosaurus, Clasmodosaurus spatula, Dachongosaurus, Damalasaurus, Eosauropoda, Faveoloolithidae, Galinhapodus (syn. Polyonyx), Gigantosaurus, Gravisauria, Hamanosauripus, Haplocanthosauridae, Herrerasauridae, Homalosauropodidae, Homalosauropodoidea, Iguanodon praecursor, Isanosaurus, Koreanosauripus, Kotasaurus, Kunmingosaurus, Lamplughsaura, Lancanjiangosaurus, Lessemsauridae, Mamenchisauroidea, Mamenchisaurus fuxiensis, Mamenchisaurus guangyuanensis, Mamenchisaurus yunnanensis, Megalobrontes, Microdontosaurus, Microsaurops (syn. Microsaurus), Morinosaurus, Morinosaurus priscus, Morosauridae, Neosodon, Nurosaurus, Ohmdenosaurus, Oplosaurus, Ornithopsidae, Oshanosaurus, Parabrontopodidae, Pleurocoelus altus, Pleurocoelus nanus, Pleurocoelus valdensis, Pulanesaura, Qinlingosaurus, Ravatichnus, Rotundichnus, Sanpasaurus, Tapinosaurus, Tendaguriidae, Titanosaurus lydekkeri, Titanosaurus montanus, Ultrasaurus, Vulcanodon, Zizhongosaurus