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Barosaurus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Barosaurus was named by Marsh (1890).

It was synonymized subjectively with Amphicoelias by Galiano and Albersdörfer (2010).

It was assigned to Sauropoda by Marsh (1890), Huene (1908) and Huene (1909); to Morosauridae by Huene (1927), Huene (1927) and Huene (1929); to Cetiosauridae by Lull (1924) and Tatarinov (1964); to Titanosauridae by Romer (1966); to Atlantosauridae by Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Marsh (1897), Nopcsa (1901), Hay (1902), von Zittel (1911) and Charig (1967); to Brachiosauridae by Madsen and Miller (1979); to Diplodocidae by Zittel (1890), Marsh (1898), Nopcsa (1928), Hay (1930), Galton (1977), Berman and McIntosh (1978), Charig (1980), McIntosh (1981), Russell (1984), Bonaparte (1986), Bonaparte (1986), Carroll (1988), Miller et al. (1991), Salgado (1993), Britt and Naylor (1994), Upchurch (1995), Upchurch (1995), Calvo and Salgado (1995), Wilson and Smith (1996), McIntosh (1997), Dodson (1997), Sereno (1997), Wilson and Sereno (1998), Wedel et al. (2000), Upchurch et al. (2004), Harris and Dodson (2004), McIntosh (2005), Gallina and Apesteguía (2005), Rauhut et al. (2005), Chure et al. (2006), Suteethorn et al. (2010), Ksepka and Norell (2010), Whitlock (2011), Ibiricu et al. (2012) and Mocho et al. (2014); to Diplodocinae by Tschopp et al. (2015); to Diplodocoidea by Xing et al. (2015); and to Diplodocinae by Romer (1956), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Coombs and Molnar (1981), McIntosh (1990), Curtice (1995), Salgado (1999), Wilson (2002), Salgado et al. (2006), Remes (2006), Royo-Torres et al. (2007), Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. (2008), Mannion et al. (2012), Tschopp and Mateus (2013), Foster and Peterson (2016) and Melstrom et al. (2016).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Barosaurus Marsh pp. 85-86 figs. 1-2
1890Barosaurus Zittel p. 716
1895Barosaurus Marsh
1896Barosaurus Marsh p. 241
1897Barosaurus Marsh p. 494
1898Barosaurus Marsh p. 158
1901Barosaurus Nopcsa p. 204
1902Barosaurus Hay p. 485
1908Gigantosaurus Fraas p. lxxxv
1908Barosaurus Huene p. 348
1909Gigantosaurus Arldt p. 262
1909Gigantosaurus Huene p. 14
1909Barosaurus Huene p. 15
1911Barosaurus von Zittel p. 287
1911Gigantosaurus von Zittel p. 287
1913Gigantosaurus Tornier p. 370
1914Gigantosaurus Janensch p. 82
1922Gigantosaurus Joleaud p. 61
1924Barosaurus Lull p. 234
1924Gigantosaurus Lull p. 235
1927Barosaurus Huene p. 123
1927Gigantosaurus Huene p. 123
1927Barosaurus Huene p. 463
1927Gigantosaurus Huene p. 463
1928Gigantosaurus Haughton pp. 72-73
1928Barosaurus Nopcsa p. 184
1929Barosaurus Huene p. 117
1929Gigantosaurus Huene p. 117
1930Barosaurus Hay p. 200
1956Barosaurus Romer p. 624
1964Barosaurus Tatarinov p. 545
1966Barosaurus Romer p. 370
1967Barosaurus Charig p. 713
1970Barosaurus Steel p. 80
1970Barosaurus Swinton p. 183
1977Barosaurus Galton p. 230
1978Barosaurus Berman and McIntosh p. 33
1979Barosaurus Madsen and Miller p. 5
1980Barosaurus Charig p. 239
1980Barosaurus gracilis Russell et al.
1981Barosaurus Coombs, Jr. and Molnar p. 356
1981Barosaurus McIntosh p. 22
1984Barosaurus Russell p. 23
1986Barosaurus Bonaparte p. 253
1988Barosaurus Carroll
1990Barosaurus gracilis McIntosh p. 349
1990Barosaurus McIntosh p. 388
1991Barosaurus Miller et al. p. 40
1992Tornieria gracilis Olshevsky p. 189
1993Barosaurus Salgado p. 269
1994Barosaurus Britt and Naylor p. 260
1995Barosaurus Calvo and Salgado p. 30 fig. 18
1995Barosaurus Curtice p. 25A
1995Barosaurus Upchurch p. 253
1996Barosaurus Wilson and Smith p. 73A
1997Barosaurus Dodson p. 11
1997Barosaurus McIntosh p. 657
1997Barosaurus Sereno p. 453
1998Barosaurus Wilson and Sereno p. 17
1999Barosaurus Salgado p. 204
2000Barosaurus Wedel et al. p. 373
2002Barosaurus Wilson p. 240 fig. 13
2004Barosaurus Harris and Dodson p. 207 fig. 4
2004Barosaurus Upchurch et al. p. 264
2005Barosaurus Gallina and Apesteguía p. 159 fig. 5
2005Barosaurus McIntosh p. 43
2005Barosaurus Rauhut et al. p. 672 fig. 2
2006Barosaurus Chure et al. p. 236
2006Barosaurus gracilis Mateus p. 231
2006Barosaurus Remes p. 664 fig. 9
2006Barosaurus Salgado et al. p. 704 fig. 9
2007Barosaurus gracilis Mezga et al. p. 197
2007Barosaurus Royo-Torres et al. p. 184
2008Barosaurus Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. p. 191
2010Barosaurus Ksepka and Norell
2010Barosaurus Suteethorn et al.
2011Barosaurus Whitlock
2012Barosaurus Ibiricu et al. p. 226
2012Barosaurus Mannion et al.
2013Barosaurus Tschopp and Mateus p. 877 fig. 11
2014Barosaurus Mocho et al.
2015Barosaurus Tschopp et al.
2015Barosaurus Xing et al.
2016Barosaurus Foster and Peterson p. 439
2016Barosaurus Melstrom et al. p. 2

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

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. †Barosaurus Marsh 1890
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†Barosaurus lentus Marsh 1890
Invalid names: Barosaurus gracilis Russell et al. 1980 [nomen nudum], Gigantosaurus Fraas 1908 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available