Cast of the skull of Nemegtosaurus, on a mounted Opisthocoelicaudia skeleton, Museum of Evolution of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
Saurischia
Clade:
†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:
†Sauropoda
Clade:
†Macronaria
Clade:
†Titanosauria
Clade:
†Eutitanosauria
Superfamily:
†Saltasauroidea
Family:
†Nemegtosauridae Upchurch, 1995
Genera
†Nemegtosaurus
†Quaesitosaurus
†Tapuiasaurus?
Nemegtosauridae is a family of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs based on their diplodocid-like skulls.[1][2][3] Only three species are known:[4]Nemegtosaurus, Quaesitosaurus and possibly Tapuiasaurus, each from the Cretaceous.
^Wilson, J.A. (13 September 2002). "Sauropod dinosaur phylogeny: critique and cladistic analysis" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 136 (2). The Linnean Society of London: 215–275. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00029.x.
^McIntosh, J. S., 1990, "Sauropoda" in The Dinosauria, Edited by David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska. University of California Press, pp. 345–401.
^Upchurch, P., Barrett, P.M. and Dodson, P. 2004. Sauropoda. In The Dinosauria, 2nd edition. D. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmólska (eds.). University of California Press, Berkeley. pp. 259–322.
Nemegtosauridae is a family of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs based on their diplodocid-like skulls. Only three species are known: Nemegtosaurus, Quaesitosaurus...
assigned to its family, Nemegtosauridae, and possibly to Magyarosaurus. Lithostrotian eggs have been assigned to Nemegtosauridae. The eggs possibly belong...
Titanosauroidea in a group with Camarasaurus and Brachiosaurus, although Nemegtosauridae (Nemegtosaurus and Quaesitosaurus) was still classified as the basalmost...
an infection. Bonitasaura was originally classified as a member of Nemegtosauridae in the original description, but subsequent cladistic analyses and...
taxon to the inversely defined Colossosauria. Carballido et al. placed Nemegtosauridae and Saltasauridae within the group, though they had Aeolosaurini within...
Consequently, Opisthocoelicaudiinae would be a junior synonym of Nemegtosauridae. In 2019, Alexander O. Averianov and Alexey V. Lopatin in a paper describing...
such as the placement of Euhelopus, Haplocanthosaurus, Jobaria and Nemegtosauridae. Cladogram after an analysis presented by Sander and colleagues in...
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