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Massospondylidae
Taxonomy
Massospondylidae was named by Huene (1914). Its type is Massospondylus.
It was synonymized subjectively with Thecodontosauridae by Kuhn (1946); it was synonymized subjectively with Anchisauridae by Kuhn (1966), Steel (1970), Galton (1973) and Cooper (1981); it was synonymized subjectively with Plateosauridae by Heerden (1979).
It was assigned to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1914), Huene (1914) and Huene (1920); to Plateosauria by Sereno (1998) and Sereno (1999); to Sauropodomorpha by Sues et al. (2004); to Prosauropoda by Knoll (2005); to Plateosauria by Upchurch et al. (2007), Smith and Pol (2007), Martínez (2009), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011) and Apaldetti et al. (2013); and to Massopoda by Novas et al. (2011) and McPhee et al. (2015).
It was synonymized subjectively with Thecodontosauridae by Kuhn (1946); it was synonymized subjectively with Anchisauridae by Kuhn (1966), Steel (1970), Galton (1973) and Cooper (1981); it was synonymized subjectively with Plateosauridae by Heerden (1979).
It was assigned to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1914), Huene (1914) and Huene (1920); to Plateosauria by Sereno (1998) and Sereno (1999); to Sauropodomorpha by Sues et al. (2004); to Prosauropoda by Knoll (2005); to Plateosauria by Upchurch et al. (2007), Smith and Pol (2007), Martínez (2009), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011) and Apaldetti et al. (2013); and to Massopoda by Novas et al. (2011) and McPhee et al. (2015).
Subtaxa
Adeopapposaurus, Coloradisaurus, Glacialisaurus, Ignavusaurus, Leyesaurus, Lufengosaurus, Massospondylus (type genus), Ngwevu, Pradhania, Sarahsaurus
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1914 | Massospondylidae Huene p. 13 |
1920 | Massospondylidae Huene p. 162 |
1998 | Massospondylidae Sereno p. 63 |
1999 | Massospondylidae Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2 |
2004 | Massospondylidae Sues et al. p. 240 |
2005 | Massospondylidae Knoll p. 84 |
2007 | Massospondylidae Smith and Pol p. 670 fig. 7 |
2007 | Massospondylidae Upchurch et al. p. 62 fig. 3 |
2009 | Massospondylidae Martínez p. 162 fig. 22 |
2010 | Massospondylidae Yates p. 750 |
2011 | Massospondylidae Apaldetti et al. p. 16 fig. 13 |
2011 | Massospondylidae Novas et al. p. 341 fig. 4 |
2013 | Massospondylidae Apaldetti et al. |
2015 | Massospondylidae McPhee et al. p. 19 fig. 12 |
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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.
Fm. †Massospondylidae Huene 1914
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G. †Glacialisaurus Smith and Pol 2007 [frozen lizard]
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†Glacialisaurus hammeri Smith and Pol 2007
G. †Lufengosaurus Young 1940
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†Lufengosaurus changduensis Zhao 1985
†Lufengosaurus huenei Young 1940
†Lufengosaurus magnus Young 1941
G. †Massospondylus Owen 1854
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†Massospondylus carinatus Owen 1854
†Massospondylus hislopi Lydekker 1890
†Massospondylus kaalae Barrett 2009
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available