Temporal range: Late Triassic - Late Cretaceous, 228–66 Ma
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Mounted skeleton of Lufengosaurus
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
Saurischia
Clade:
†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:
†Plateosauria
Clade:
†Massopoda Yates, 2007
Subgroups[3]
†Chuxiongosaurus
†Ignavusaurus[1]
†Musankwa[2]
†Sarahsaurus[1]
†Tuebingosaurus
†Riojasauridae
†Massospondylidae
†Sauropodiformes
†Jingshanosaurus?
†Qianlong
†Seitaad?
†Xingxiulong
†Yunnanosaurus?
†Anchisauria
Massopoda is a clade of sauropodomorph dinosaurs which lived during the Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous epochs. It was named by paleontologist Adam M. Yates of the University of the Witwatersrand in 2007. Massopoda is a stem-based taxon, defined as all animals more closely related to Saltasaurus loricatus than to Plateosaurus engelhardti.[4]
The name Massopoda, from Latin massa 'lump'; from Ancient Greek πους (pous) 'foot', is also contraction of Massospondylidae and Sauropoda, two disparate taxa in the clade.
^ abApaldetti, C.; Martinez, R. N.; Alcober, O. A.; Pol, D. (2011). Claessens, Leon (ed.). "A New Basal Sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina". PLOS ONE. 6 (11): e26964. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026964. PMC 3212523. PMID 22096511.
^Barrett, Paul M.; Chapelle, Kimberley E.J.; Sciscio, Lara; Broderick, Timothy J.; Zondo, Michel; Munyikwa, Darlington; Choiniere, Jonah N. "A new Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 69 (2): 227–241. doi:10.4202/app.01100.2023.
^McPhee, B. W.; Yates, A. M.; Choiniere, J. N.; Abdala, F. (2014). "The complete anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Antetonitrus ingenipes (Sauropodiformes, Dinosauria): Implications for the origins of Sauropoda". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 171: 151–205. doi:10.1111/zoj.12127.
^Yates, Adam M. (2007). "Solving a dinosaurian puzzle: the identity of Aliwalia rex Galton". Historical Biology. 19 (1): 93–123. doi:10.1080/08912960600866953. S2CID 85202575.
Massopoda is a clade of sauropodomorph dinosaurs which lived during the Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous epochs. It was named by paleontologist Adam M...
journal Nature. In this analysis, the group was found to be sister to Massopoda within the clade Plateosauria. The 2021 study by Beccari et al. describing...
recovered Musankwa as the basalmost member of the sauropodomorph clade Massopoda, with the Riojasauridae found to be the next diverging clade. Their results...
The following cladogram shows the position of Massospondylidae within Massopoda, according to Oliver W. M. Rauhut and colleagues, 2020: Chapelle, Kimberley...
Riojasauridae was recovered as the earliest-diverging lineage of the clade Massopoda, and represents a sister group to the node formed by Massospondylidae...
the taxon Massopoda in a clade with Anchisaurus and Jingshanosaurus. Apaldetti et al. (2011) also found that Yunnanosaurus belonged in Massopoda, but found...
sauropodiform. The following cladogram shows the position of Isanosaurus within Massopoda, according to Oliver W. M. Rauhut and colleagues, 2020: Rauhut, O. W....
Apaldetti and colleagues in November 2011, Seitaad was found to be within Massopoda, just outside Anchisauria. Seitaad was first described by Joseph J. W...
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