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Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis was named by Bonaparte and Mateus (1999). Its type specimen is ML 414, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Praia de Porto Dinheiro cliff (top), which is in a Kimmeridgian estuary/bay sandstone/mudstone in the Lourinhã Formation of Portugal. It is the type species of Dinheirosaurus.

It was recombined as Supersaurus lourinhanensis by Tschopp et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1999Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Bonaparte and Mateus pp. 15-16 figs. 2-8
2002Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Wilson p. 248
2004Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Upchurch et al. p. 265
2006Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Harris p. 1116
2006Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Mateus p. 231
2006Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Royo-Torres et al. figs. Table S2
2007Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Escaso et al. p. 368
2007Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Royo-Torres et al. p. 183
2008Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Cerda p. 351
2008Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. p. 192
2009Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Ortega et al. p. 50
2010Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Mateus and Milàn p. 253
2010Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Ortega et al. p. 62
2012Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Ibiricu et al. p. 226
2012Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Mannion et al.
2013Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Mocho et al. p. 91
2013Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Tschopp and Mateus p. 877 fig. 11
2015Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Ibiricu et al. p. 432
2015Supersaurus lourinhanensis Tschopp et al.
2015Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Wings p. 8
2016Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Mocho et al. p. 228
2017Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Mocho et al. p. 2
2019Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Mocho et al. p. 1
2024Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Burigo and Mateus p. 4
2025Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Mannion and Moore

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
RankNameAuthor
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropodomorpha(Huene 1932)
—Massopoda
—Sauropodiformes
—Sauropoda()
—Gravisauria
—Eusauropoda
—Neosauropoda
—Diplodocoidea()
—Diplodocimorpha
—Flagellicaudata
—Diplodocidae()
—Diplodocinae(Janensch 1929)
genusDinheirosaurus
specieslourinhanensis

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.

†Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis Bonaparte and Mateus 1999
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. F. Bonaparte and O. Mateus 1999Posterior cervical and dorsal vertebrae of the Diplodocus type, with bifurcated neural spines, but with only one well defined infraparapophysial lamina present from dorsal 4 backwards. In mid and posterior dorsals, the cited lamina is obliquely directed from the parapophysis to the ventroposterior corner of the neural arch. A complex structure derived from the hyposphene makes an accessory articulation, exposed in lateral view. Lower section of the neural arch of the mid and posterior dorsal vertebrae dorsoventrally shorter than in Diplodocus.