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Parabrontopodidae

Reptilia - Parabrontopodidae

Taxonomy
Parabrontopodidae was named by Apesteguía (2005). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type is Parabrontopodus.

It was assigned to Sauropoda by Apesteguía (2005); and to Sauropoda by Meyer et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2005Parabrontopodidae Apesteguía p. 329
2021Parabrontopodidae Meyer et al. p. 547

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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
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropoda()
familyParabrontopodidae
familyParabrontopodidae

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. †Parabrontopodidae Apesteguía 2005
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G. †Breviparopus Dutuit and Ouazzou 1980
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†Breviparopus taghbaloutensis Dutuit and Ouazzou 1980
G. †Parabrontopodus Lockley et al. 1995
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†Parabrontopodus barkhausensis Kaever and Lapparent 1974
†Parabrontopodus distercii Meijide Fuentes et al. 2001
†Parabrontopodus mcintoshi Lockley et al. 1995
Invalid names: Elephantopoides Kaever and Lapparent 1974 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteinfrao
Entire body: yesinfrao
Adult length: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult width: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult height: 10 to < 100infrao
Thickness: thickinfrao
Architecture: compact or denseinfrao
Form: sphericalinfrao
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partsinfrao
Grouping: gregariousinfrao
Environment: terrestrialinfrao
Locomotion: actively mobileinfrao
Life habit: ground dwellinginfrao
Diet: herbivoreinfrao
Reproduction: oviparousinfrao
Dispersal: direct/internalinfrao
Dispersal 2: mobileinfrao
Created: 2004-12-14 12:49:10
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:49:10
Source: infrao = infraorder
Reference: Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Albian or 201.30000 to 100.50000 Ma

Collections (52 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Hettangian201.3 - 196.5Poland (Swietokrzyskie) Parabrontopodus sp. (83229 84260)
Late/Upper Hettangian201.3 - 196.5Italy (Trentino-Alto Adige) Sauropoda indet. (68776)
Middle Hettangian201.3 - 196.5Poland (Swietokrzyskie) Parabrontopodus sp. (56999) Sauropoda indet. (56964)
Middle Hettangian - Late/Upper Hettangian201.3 - 196.5Romania Parabrontopodus sp. (143604)
Hettangian - Early/Lower Sinemurian201.3 - 189.6Italy (Trentino-Alto Adige) Parabrontopodus sp. (194080) Sauropoda indet. (68887)
Late/Upper Hettangian - Early/Lower Sinemurian201.3 - 189.6Italy (Trentino-Alto Adige) Sauropodomorpha indet. (88344)
Late/Upper Sinemurian196.5 - 189.6Italy (Verona) Parabrontopodus sp. (68886)
Aalenian174.1 - 170.3United Kingdom (England) Breviparopus sp. (202019) Sauropoda indet. (202020)
Bathonian - Callovian168.3 - 163.5China (Guizhou) Parabrontopodus sp. (224182)
Early/Lower Bathonian - Middle Bathonian167.7 - 164.7Morocco (Fès-Boulemane) Breviparopus sp. (58915)
Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian163.5 - 152.1Morocco (Azilal) Breviparopus taghbaloutensis (49424)
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1USA (Colorado) Sauropoda indet. (156134)
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1Chile (Antofagasta) Parabrontopodus sp. (52810)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0USA (Colorado) Sauropoda indet. (52919)
Kimmeridgian - Tithonian157.3 - 145.0Spain (Aragón) Parabrontopodus sp. (59082)
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Germany (Niedersachsen) Sauropoda indet. (121154)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Switzerland (Jura) Breviparopus sp., Parabrontopodus sp. (88123) Sauropoda indet. (149601)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Portugal (Setúbal) Sauropoda indet. (61662 61663 61664 61665)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) Elephantopoides sp. (182491 182493)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Switzerland (Bern) Breviparopus sp. (67986)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8Switzerland (Solothurn) Sauropoda indet. (67988)
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0France (Jura) Parabrontopodus sp. (53910) Sauropoda indet. (53911)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0France (Midi-Pyrénées) Parabrontopodus sp. (190672)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Switzerland (Neuchâtel) Parabrontopodus sp. (155021)
Late/Upper Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Croatia (Istarska) Parabrontopodus sp. (69753 205810)
Middle Berriasian145.0 - 140.2France (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) Parabrontopodus sp. (224903)
Berriasian145.0 - 139.8Spain (Castilla y Leon) Parabrontopodus distercii (68466)
Early/Lower Cretaceous145.0 - 100.5China (Jiangsu) Parabrontopodus sp. (109247 109248 109249 109251)
Valanginian139.8 - 132.9China (Beijing) Deltapodus sp. (153397) Dinosauria indet. (220020)
Hauterivian - Barremian132.9 - 125.0China (Xinjiang) Parabrontopodus sp. (214450)
Barremian - Aptian129.4 - 113.0Spain (La Rioja) Parabrontopodus sp. (61859)
Aptian - Albian125.0 - 100.5China (Shandong) Parabrontopodus sp. (219976 219977 219980 219981)
Albian113.0 - 100.5China (Shandong) Parabrontopodus sp. (219854) Sauropoda indet. (219972)