A nearly complete skull of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Australia and implications for the early evolution of titanosaurs

Citation

Poropat, S. F.; Mannion, P. D.; Rigby, S. L.; Duncan, R. J.; Pentland, A. H.; Bevitt, J. J.; Sloan, T.; Elliott, D. A. (2023). A nearly complete skull of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Australia and implications for the early evolution of titanosaurs. Royal Society Open Science 10(4): 221618. doi:10.1098/rsos.221618

Cited by genera

• Diamantinasaurus
• Huabeisaurus

  Recovered Huabeisaurus at the base of Titanosauria.

• Padillasaurus

  Recovered Padillasaurus as a non-titanosaurian somphospondylan.

• Sarmientosaurus

  Recovered Sarmientosaurus within Diamantinasauria, in a polytomy with the Diamantinasaurus specimens and Savannasaurus.

• Wintonotitan

  Recovered Wintonotitan outside Diamantinasauria and Titanosauria.

• Yongjinglong

  Recovered Yongjinglong within Euhelopodidae.

Cited by clades

• Diamantinasauria

  Equal-weights analysis recovers Diamantinasauria as a non-lithostrotian titanosaur clade near the base of Titanosauria, but outside Titanosauria under extended implied weighting.