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A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)

Tschopp, E.; Mateus, O.; Benson, R. B. J. (2015)

Citation

Tschopp, E.; Mateus, O.; Benson, R. B. J. (2015). A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda). PeerJ 3: e857. PeerJ. doi:10.7717/peerj.857

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Cited by genera

  • Amphicoelias

    Recovered Amphicoelias as Diplodocidae incertae sedis, outside Apatosaurinae and Diplodocinae.

  • Apatosaurus

    Specimen-level revision of Diplodocidae providing an emended diagnosis of Apatosaurus and restricting the genus to A. ajax and A. louisae, moving other species to Brontosaurus.

  • Atlantosaurus

    Recovers the holotype of the second species Atlantosaurus immanis as an indeterminate apatosaurine lacking autapomorphies, so a nomen dubium.

  • Barosaurus

    Specimen-level revision of Diplodocidae providing a revised diagnosis of Barosaurus and retaining B. lentus as the only valid species.

  • Brontosaurus

    Specimen-level revision that resurrected Brontosaurus as a genus distinct from Apatosaurus.

  • Cetiosauriscus

    Recovered Cetiosauriscus as a non-neosauropod eusauropod near Omeisaurus under implied weighting, though within Diplodocimorpha under equal weighting.

  • Dinheirosaurus

    Proposed synonymizing Dinheirosaurus into Supersaurus as Supersaurus lourinhanensis.

  • Diplodocus

    Specimen-level phylogenetic revision; provides the modern revised diagnosis and proposes switching the type species to D. carnegii (subsequently rejected by ICZN Opinion 2425).

  • Dyslocosaurus

    Found the holotype diagnostic and Dyslocosaurus a valid taxon, recovering it as the most basal dicraeosaurid.

  • Dystrophaeus

    Within Dicraeosauridae under implied weighting, too unstable to place under equal weighting; constrained searches support dicraeosaurid and camarasaurid positions about equally.

  • Galeamopus
  • Haplocanthosaurus

    Recovered Haplocanthosaurus as the earliest diplodocoid under implied weights.

  • Kaatedocus
  • Lourinhasaurus

    Lists the lectotype as "MIGM 2, 4931, 4956-57, 4970, 4975, 4979-80, 4983-84, 5780-81, 30370-88".

  • Suuwassea

    Lists the holotype from Rattlesnake Ridge Quarry as "Late Kimmeridgian; Lower Morrison Form.".

  • Tornieria

    Source of the diagnostic features; a specimen-level revision that provides a revised diagnosis and holds the genus distinct from Barosaurus.

Cited by clades

  • Apatosaurinae

    Validly applied Apatosaurinae in a phylogenetic context and resurrected Brontosaurus as a distinct genus.