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Brontosaurus
Taxonomy
Brontosaurus was named by Marsh (1879).
It was synonymized subjectively with Camarasaurus by Huene (1927), Huene (1927) and Huene (1929); it was synonymized subjectively with Atlantosaurus by Steel (1970); it was misspelled as Brontausaurus by Joleaud (1922), Lull (1924), Hay (1930), Romer (1966) and Tschopp et al. (2015); it was synonymized subjectively with Apatosaurus by Riggs (1903), Huene (1908), Huene (1909), Hay (1910), von Zittel (1911), Tornier (1913), Lull (1915), Holland (1916), Gilmore (1932), Gilmore (1936), Janensch (1938), Lapparent (1943), Untermann and Untermann (1954), Romer (1956), Parsch (1963), Tatarinov (1964), Swinton (1970), Mcintosh and Berman (1975), Madsen and Miller (1979), Santafé-Llopis et al. (1981), McIntosh (1981), Coombs and Molnar (1981), McGinnis (1982), Santafé et al. (1982), Forster and Spamer (1986), McIntosh (1990), Lockley (1990), McIntosh (1995), McIntosh (1997), Upchurch et al. (2004), Upchurch et al. (2004) and Foster and Peterson (2016).
It was assigned to Sauropoda by Marsh (1879) and Gadow (1897); to Sauropoda by Dollo (1885), Gadow (1898) and Gadow (1901); to Sauropoda by Joleaud (1922); to Atlantosauridae by Marsh (1881), Sauvage (1882), Vetter (1884), Dollo (1884), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Zittel (1890), Winkler (1893), Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Marsh (1897), Marsh (1898), Nopcsa (1901), Mansel-Pleydell (1902), Hay (1902), Lull (1924) and Hay (1930); to Titanosauridae by Romer (1966); and to Apatosaurinae by Tschopp et al. (2015).
It was synonymized subjectively with Camarasaurus by Huene (1927), Huene (1927) and Huene (1929); it was synonymized subjectively with Atlantosaurus by Steel (1970); it was misspelled as Brontausaurus by Joleaud (1922), Lull (1924), Hay (1930), Romer (1966) and Tschopp et al. (2015); it was synonymized subjectively with Apatosaurus by Riggs (1903), Huene (1908), Huene (1909), Hay (1910), von Zittel (1911), Tornier (1913), Lull (1915), Holland (1916), Gilmore (1932), Gilmore (1936), Janensch (1938), Lapparent (1943), Untermann and Untermann (1954), Romer (1956), Parsch (1963), Tatarinov (1964), Swinton (1970), Mcintosh and Berman (1975), Madsen and Miller (1979), Santafé-Llopis et al. (1981), McIntosh (1981), Coombs and Molnar (1981), McGinnis (1982), Santafé et al. (1982), Forster and Spamer (1986), McIntosh (1990), Lockley (1990), McIntosh (1995), McIntosh (1997), Upchurch et al. (2004), Upchurch et al. (2004) and Foster and Peterson (2016).
It was assigned to Sauropoda by Marsh (1879) and Gadow (1897); to Sauropoda by Dollo (1885), Gadow (1898) and Gadow (1901); to Sauropoda by Joleaud (1922); to Atlantosauridae by Marsh (1881), Sauvage (1882), Vetter (1884), Dollo (1884), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Zittel (1890), Winkler (1893), Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Marsh (1897), Marsh (1898), Nopcsa (1901), Mansel-Pleydell (1902), Hay (1902), Lull (1924) and Hay (1930); to Titanosauridae by Romer (1966); and to Apatosaurinae by Tschopp et al. (2015).
Synonyms
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1879 | Brontosaurus Marsh |
1881 | Brontosaurus Marsh |
1882 | Brontosaurus Sauvage p. 35 |
1884 | Brontosaurus Dollo p. 298 |
1884 | Brontosaurus Marsh p. 68 |
1884 | Brontosaurus Vetter p. 351 |
1885 | Brontosaurus Dollo p. 36 |
1885 | Brontosaurus Marsh p. 764 |
1890 | Brontosaurus Zittel p. 706 |
1893 | Brontosaurus Winkler p. 101 |
1895 | Brontosaurus Marsh |
1896 | Brontosaurus Marsh p. 241 |
1897 | Brontosaurus Gadow p. 204 |
1897 | Brontosaurus Marsh p. 494 |
1898 | Brontosaurus giganteus Anonymous p. 29 |
1898 | Brontosaurus Gadow p. 22 |
1898 | Brontosaurus Marsh p. 158 |
1901 | Brontosaurus Gadow p. 418 |
1901 | Brontosaurus Nopcsa p. 204 |
1902 | Brontosaurus Hay p. 485 |
1902 | Brontosaurus Mansel-Pleydell p. lxxvi |
1902 | Elosaurus Peterson and Gilmore p. 491 |
1909 | Elosaurus Huene p. 15 |
1911 | Elosaurus von Zittel p. 288 |
1914 | Elosaurus Huene p. 156 |
1922 | Brontausaurus Joleaud p. 62 |
1924 | Brontosaurus Lull p. 234 |
1927 | Elosaurus Huene p. 460 |
1928 | Elosaurus Nopcsa p. 184 |
1929 | Elosaurus Huene p. 108 |
1930 | Elosaurus Hay p. 193 |
1930 | Brontosaurus Hay p. 195 |
1939 | Elosaurus Kuhn p. 86 |
1956 | Elosaurus Romer p. 620 |
1964 | Elosaurus Tatarinov p. 549 |
1966 | Brontosaurus Romer p. 370 |
1966 | Elosaurus Romer p. 370 |
1970 | Elosaurus Steel p. 66 |
1998 | Eobrontosaurus Bakker p. 74 |
2013 | Eobrontosaurus Tschopp and Mateus p. 880 |
2015 | Brontosaurus Tschopp et al. |
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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.
G. †Brontosaurus Marsh 1879
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†Brontosaurus parvus Peterson and Gilmore 1902
†Brontosaurus yahnahpin Filla and Redman 1994
Invalid names: Brontosaurus giganteus Anonymous 1898 [nomen nudum], Elosaurus Peterson and Gilmore 1902 [synonym], Eobrontosaurus Bakker 1998 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available