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Prosauropoda (prosauropod)

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Taxonomy
Prosauropoda was named by Huene (1920).

It was reranked as the suborder Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1939), Huene (1958), Tatarinov (1964), Simmons (1965), Haubold (1971), Bakker and Galton (1974), Haubold (1974), McIntosh (1981); it was reranked as the superfamily Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1946), Parsch (1963); it was synonymized subjectively with Palaeopoda by Reig (1970); it was reranked as the unranked clade Prosauropoda by Knoll (2005), Upchurch et al. (2007).

It was assigned to Sauropoda by Lapparent (1947); to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1926), Huene (1929), Huene (1948), Huene (1954); to Theropoda by Kuhn (1946), Haughton and Brink (1954), Parsch (1963), Kuhn (1966); to Theropoda by Lull (1953), Romer (1956), Kuhn (1971); to Sauropodomorpha by Bakker and Galton (1974); to Saurischia by Kuhn (1939), Huene (1958), Tatarinov (1964), Simmons (1965), Haubold (1971), Haubold (1974), Bonaparte (1978), McIntosh (1981), Cooper (1981), Battail (1986); to Sauropodomorpha by Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Krebs (1974), Anderson and Cruickshank (1978), Benton (1979), Ostrom (1980), McGinnis (1982), Dong et al. (1983), Russell (1984), Galton and Van Heerden (1985), Galton (1985), Carroll (1988), Sereno (1989), Long and Murry (1995), Salgado et al. (1997), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Wilson and Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Galton and Upchurch (2004), Galton et al. (2005); to Sauropodomorpha by Leal and Azevedo (2003), Knoll (2005); and to Anchisauria by Upchurch et al. (2007).

Subtaxa
Aetonyx, Aetonyx palustris, Agrosaurus, Anchisauridae (syn. Palaeosauridae, Gryponychidae, Palaeosauriscidae, Gryponichidae, Amphisauridae), Aristosaurus, Aristosaurus erectus, Barrancapus, Dimodosaurus, Dromicosaurus, Dromicosaurus gracilis, Euskelesauridae, Euskelosaurus africanus, Fulengia, Gigantoscelus, Gresslyosaurus (syn. Dinosaurus), Gryponyx, Gryponyx africanus, Gryponyx taylori, Gryponyx transvaalensis, Gyposaurus capensis, Hortalotarsus, Hortalotarsus skirtopodus, Leptospondylus, Massospondylus browni, Massospondylus harriesi, Massospondylus schwarzi, Mussauridae, Orinosaurus, Orinosaurus capensis, Otozoidae, Pachysauriscus, Pachysaurops, Pachysaurus, Pachyspondylus, Plateosauravidae, Plateosaurus stormbergensis, Pseudotetrasauropus, Pseudotetrasauropus acutunguis, Pseudotetrasauropus curtus, Pseudotetrasauropus elegans, Pseudotetrasauropus francisci, Rotodactylopus, Tawasaurus, Teratosaurus trossingensis, Tetrasauropus, Thecodontosaurus dubius, Thecodontosaurus minor, Yimenosaurus, Yunnanosauridae, Zanclodon bavaricus