Neosauropoda

Animalia

Neosauropoda Temporal range: Middle Jurassic - Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	†Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder:	†Sauropoda
Branch:	†Eusauropoda
Node:	†Neosauropoda Bonaparte, 1986
Families
Brachiosauridae Camarasauridae Diplodocidae Dicraeosauridae Nemegtosauridae Rebbachisauridae Titanosauridae/Saltasauridae

Neosauropoda is a division-level clade of sauropods within Dinosauria, and consists of the group leading to Diplodocoidea and Macronaria. Haplocanthosaurus was a typical basal neosauropod from around 150 million years ago, in the Late Jurassic. Many later sauropods, including Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, and Brachiosaurus, were also neosauropods by definition.

The clade was originally coined by Argentine paleontologist José Bonaparte in 1986.

Phylogeny

From Upchurch et al. 2004:

Neosauropoda
 |--Diplodocoidea
 |     |--Rebbachisauridae
 |     |--Dicraeosauridae
 |     `--Diplodocidae
 `--Macronaria
    `--Camarasauromorpha
       |--Brachiosauridae
       `--Titanosauroidea
          `--Titanosauria
             `--Saltasauridae

External links

• Vertebrate Paleontology (University of Bristol)
• TaxonSearch entry for Neosauropoda