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Titanosauridae (titanosaurid)
Taxonomy
Titanosauridae was named by Lydekker (1885). It is not extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Atlantosauridae by Swinton (1970).
It was assigned to Sauropoda by Lydekker (1893), Hoffet (1942) and Lapparent (1947); to Homalosauropodidae by Huene (1948) and Young (1958); to Cetiosauria by Colbert (1964); to Sauropoda by Bakker (1986); to Sauropoda by Lydekker (1885), Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Marsh (1898), Huene (1927), Huene (1927), Huene (1929), Huene and Matley (1933), Swinton (1936), Gilmore (1946), Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Romer (1966), Rozhdestvensky (1977), Galton (1977), Ostrom (1980), Russell (1984), Carroll (1988), McIntosh (1990), Benton (1990), Jacobs et al. (1993), Hunt et al. (1995) and Dong (1998); to Titanosauroidea by Upchurch (1995), Upchurch (1995), Upchurch (1997) and Salgado (2003); to Sauropodomorpha by Powell (1987) and Powell (2003); and to Titanosauria by Bonaparte and Coria (1993), Bonaparte (1996), Salgado et al. (1997), Bonaparte (1999), Santucci and Bertini (2001), Smith et al. (2001), Calvo and González Riga (2003), González-Riga (2003), de Almeida et al. (2004), Salgado and Coria (2005), Apesteguía (2005), Novas et al. (2005), Moser et al. (2006), Calvo et al. (2007), Calvo et al. (2007) and González Riga et al. (2009).
It was synonymized subjectively with Atlantosauridae by Swinton (1970).
It was assigned to Sauropoda by Lydekker (1893), Hoffet (1942) and Lapparent (1947); to Homalosauropodidae by Huene (1948) and Young (1958); to Cetiosauria by Colbert (1964); to Sauropoda by Bakker (1986); to Sauropoda by Lydekker (1885), Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Marsh (1898), Huene (1927), Huene (1927), Huene (1929), Huene and Matley (1933), Swinton (1936), Gilmore (1946), Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Romer (1966), Rozhdestvensky (1977), Galton (1977), Ostrom (1980), Russell (1984), Carroll (1988), McIntosh (1990), Benton (1990), Jacobs et al. (1993), Hunt et al. (1995) and Dong (1998); to Titanosauroidea by Upchurch (1995), Upchurch (1995), Upchurch (1997) and Salgado (2003); to Sauropodomorpha by Powell (1987) and Powell (2003); and to Titanosauria by Bonaparte and Coria (1993), Bonaparte (1996), Salgado et al. (1997), Bonaparte (1999), Santucci and Bertini (2001), Smith et al. (2001), Calvo and González Riga (2003), González-Riga (2003), de Almeida et al. (2004), Salgado and Coria (2005), Apesteguía (2005), Novas et al. (2005), Moser et al. (2006), Calvo et al. (2007), Calvo et al. (2007) and González Riga et al. (2009).
Subtaxa
Aeolosaurini, Antarctosaurinae, Antarctosaurus (syn. Antarctosaurus brasiliensis, Antarctosaurus jaxarticus), Argyrosaurus, Atacamatitan, Baurutitan, Hypselosaurus (syn. Hypselosaurus priscus), Laplatasaurus, Lognkosauria, Megaloolithidae, Microcoelus, Rinconsauria, Titanosaurinae, Titanosaurus (syn. Titanosaurus falloti, Titanosaurus madagascariensis, Titanosaurus rahioliensis), Trigonosaurus
Sister taxa
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Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1885 | Titanosauridae Lydekker p. 37 |
| 1893 | Titanosauridae Lydekker p. 3 |
| 1895 | Titanosauridae Marsh |
| 1896 | Titanosauridae Marsh p. 242 |
| 1898 | Titanosauridae Marsh p. 158 |
| 1927 | Titanosauridae Huene p. 125 |
| 1929 | Titanosauridae Huene p. 493 |
| 1933 | Titanosauridae Huene and Matley p. 70 |
| 1936 | Titanosauridae Swinton p. 209 |
| 1942 | Titanosauridae Hoffet p. 53 |
| 1946 | Titanosauridae Gilmore p. 29 |
| 1947 | Titanosauridae Lapparent p. 17 |
| 1948 | Titanosauridae Huene p. 93 |
| 1956 | Titanosauridae Romer p. 621 |
| 1958 | Titanosauridae Young p. 25 |
| 1959 | Titanosauridae Huene p. 121 |
| 1964 | Titanosauridae Colbert p. 22 fig. 6 |
| 1966 | Titanosauridae Romer p. 370 |
| 1977 | Titanosauridae Galton p. 230 |
| 1977 | Titanosauridae Rozhdestvensky p. 113 |
| 1978 | Antarctosauridae Olshevsky p. 27 |
| 1980 | Titanosauridae Ostrom p. 22 |
| 1984 | Titanosauridae Russell p. 29 |
| 1986 | Titanosauridae Bakker p. 461 |
| 1987 | Titanosauridae Powell p. 148 |
| 1988 | Titanosauridae Carroll |
| 1990 | Titanosauridae Benton p. 19 |
| 1990 | Titanosauridae McIntosh p. 394 |
| 1993 | Titanosauridae Bonaparte and Coria |
| 1993 | Titanosauridae Jacobs et al. p. 524 |
| 1995 | Titanosauridae Hunt et al. p. 264 |
| 1995 | Titanosauridae Upchurch p. 253 |
| 1996 | Titanosauridae Bonaparte p. 102 |
| 1997 | Titanosauridae Salgado et al. p. 20 |
| 1997 | Titanosauridae Upchurch p. 82A |
| 1998 | Titanosauridae Dong p. 85 |
| 1999 | Titanosauridae Bonaparte pp. 160-161 |
| 2001 | Titanosauridae Santucci and Bertini p. 308 |
| 2001 | Titanosauridae Smith et al. p. 1705 fig. 3 |
| 2003 | Titanosauridae Calvo and González Riga p. 335 |
| 2003 | Titanosauridae González-Riga |
| 2003 | Titanosauridae Powell p. 21 |
| 2003 | Titanosauridae Salgado p. 17 fig. 1 |
| 2004 | Titanosauridae de Almeida et al. p. 242 |
| 2005 | Titanosauridae Apesteguía pp. 261-262 |
| 2005 | Titanosauridae Novas et al. p. 37 |
| 2005 | Titanosauridae Salgado and Coria p. 435 |
| 2006 | Titanosauridae Moser et al. p. 46 |
| 2007 | Titanosauridae Calvo et al. p. 497 fig. 14 |
| 2007 | Titanosauridae Calvo et al. p. 533 fig. 3 |
| 2009 | Titanosauridae González Riga et al. p. 144 fig. 11 |
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