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<tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)"><i>Meroktenos</i><br /><div style="font-size: 85%;">Temporal range: <a href="/wiki/Late_Triassic" title="Late Triassic">Late Triassic</a>, <span class="noprint"><span style="display:inline-block;"></span><span style="display:inline-block;">216.5–201 <a href="/wiki/Megaannum" class="mw-redirect" title="Megaannum">Ma</a></span> <span style="display:inline-block;"></span><div id="Timeline-row" style="margin: 4px auto 0; clear:both; width:220px; padding:0px; height:18px; overflow:visible; white-space:nowrap; border:1px #666; border-style:solid none; position:relative; z-index:0; font-size:97%;"> <div style="position:absolute; height:100%; left:0px; width:207.23076923077px; padding-left:5px; text-align:left; background-color:rgb(254,217,106); background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255,255,255,1), rgba(254,217,106,1) 15%, rgba(254,217,106,1));"><a href="/wiki/Precambrian" 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</td></tr> <tr> <td>Phylum: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chordate" title="Chordate">Chordata</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Clade</i>: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dinosaur" title="Dinosaur">Dinosauria</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Clade</i>: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Saurischia" title="Saurischia">Saurischia</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Clade</i>: </td> <td><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;">†</span><a href="/wiki/Sauropodomorpha" title="Sauropodomorpha">Sauropodomorpha</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Clade</i>: </td> <td><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;">†</span><a href="/wiki/Anchisauria" title="Anchisauria">Anchisauria</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Genus: </td> <td><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;">†</span><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><i>Meroktenos</i></a><br /><small>Peyre de Fabrègues & Allain, 2016</small> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)"><a href="/wiki/Type_species" title="Type species">Type species</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: center"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><b>Meroktenos thabanensis</b></i><br /><div style="font-size: 85%;">(Gauffre, 1993)</div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)"><a href="/wiki/Synonym_(taxonomy)" title="Synonym (taxonomy)">Synonyms</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: left"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Melanorosaurus" title="Melanorosaurus">Melanorosaurus</a> thabanensis</i> <br /><small>Gauffre, 1993</small></li></ul> </td></tr> </tbody></table><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238732961">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota tr{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota img{background:transparent}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota tr{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota img{background:white}}.mw-parser-output .infobox.biota .taxobox-edit-taxonomy img{background:transparent!important}body.skin-vector .mw-parser-output table.biota.infobox{margin-top:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output table.biota.infobox tr.taxonrow td{padding:2px 10px}</style> <p><i><b>Meroktenos</b></i> is a genus of basal <a href="/wiki/Sauropodomorpha" title="Sauropodomorpha">sauropodomorph</a> <a href="/wiki/Dinosaur" title="Dinosaur">dinosaur</a> that lived during the <a href="/wiki/Late_Triassic" title="Late Triassic">Late Triassic</a> period of what is now <a href="/wiki/Lesotho" title="Lesotho">Lesotho</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discovery_and_naming">Discovery and naming</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meroktenos&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Discovery and naming"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ilium_of_Meroktenos.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Ilium_of_Meroktenos.png/220px-Ilium_of_Meroktenos.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Ilium_of_Meroktenos.png/330px-Ilium_of_Meroktenos.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Ilium_of_Meroktenos.png/440px-Ilium_of_Meroktenos.png 2x" data-file-width="2379" data-file-height="1738" /></a><figcaption>Ilium</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1959, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fran%C3%A7ois_Ellenberger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="François Ellenberger (page does not exist)">François Ellenberger</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Ellenberger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Ellenberger (page does not exist)">Paul Ellenberger</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jean_Fabre_(geologist)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jean Fabre (geologist) (page does not exist)">Jean Fabre</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Leonard_Ginsburg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leonard Ginsburg (page does not exist)">Leonard Ginsburg</a> discovered the <a href="/wiki/Type_specimen" class="mw-redirect" title="Type specimen">type specimen</a>, a thighbone or femur and other assorted bones, south of the village of Thabana Morena. In 1962 these were addressed in a thesis by D. Costedoat.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The exact location the bones were recovered, is today unknown.<sup id="cite_ref-Peyre_de_Fabrègues2016_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peyre_de_Fabrègues2016-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1993, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fran%C3%A7ois-Xavier_Gauffre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="François-Xavier Gauffre (page does not exist)">François-Xavier Gauffre</a> assigned the remains to a second species of <i>Melanorosaurus</i>: <i>Melanorosaurus thabanensis</i>. The description was provisional, and in 1997 the fossil was described in more detail in a publication by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jacques_van_Heerden&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jacques van Heerden (page does not exist)">Jacques van Heerden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Malcolm_Galton" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Malcolm Galton">Peter Malcolm Galton</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Specific_name_(zoology)" title="Specific name (zoology)">specific name</a> refers to the site Thabana-Morena in Lesotho.<sup id="cite_ref-Gauffre1993_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gauffre1993-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gauffre assumed that the specimen had been found in the <a href="/wiki/Upper_Elliot_Formation" class="mw-redirect" title="Upper Elliot Formation">Upper Elliot Formation</a> dating from the <a href="/wiki/Hettangian" title="Hettangian">Hettangian</a>-<a href="/wiki/Sinemurian" title="Sinemurian">Sinemurian</a> and thus was about twenty million year younger than <i>Melanorosaurus readi</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Gauffre1993_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gauffre1993-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1996, he revised the date to the <a href="/wiki/Lower_Elliot_Formation" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower Elliot Formation">Lower Elliot Formation</a> of the late Triassic in his non-published dissertation. He also referred the thighbone to a new genus and species <i><a href="/wiki/Thotobolosaurus" class="mw-redirect" title="Thotobolosaurus">Thotobolosaurus</a></i> (now <i><a href="/wiki/Kholumolumo" title="Kholumolumo">Kholumolumo</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>). This remained a non-valid <i>nomen ex dissertatione</i>, as the name would never be published; furthermore the type material of this species does not coincide with that of <i>M. thabanensis</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, <i>M. thabanensis</i> was appointed to the separate genus <i>Meroktenos</i> by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Claire_Peyre_de_Fabr%C3%A8gues&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Claire Peyre de Fabrègues (page does not exist)">Claire Peyre de Fabrègues</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ronan_Allain" title="Ronan Allain">Ronan Allain</a>. The genus name is a combination of ancient Greek μηρός, <i>meros</i> ("thigh") and κτῆνος, <i>ktènos</i> ("beast").<sup id="cite_ref-Peyre_de_Fabrègues2016_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peyre_de_Fabrègues2016-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/Combinatio_nova" title="Combinatio nova">combinatio nova</a></i> thus becomes <i>Meroktenos thabanensis</i>, the <a href="/wiki/Type_species" title="Type species">type species</a> is the original <i>Melanorosaurus thabanensis</i>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Holotype" title="Holotype">holotype</a>, <b>MNHN.F.LES 16</b>, consists of a right thighbone (MNHN.F.LES16c), a portion of the right ilium, with a piece of a vertebral <a href="/wiki/Neural_arch" class="mw-redirect" title="Neural arch">neural arch</a> (MNHN.F.LES16a); a left pubic bone (MNHN.F.LES16b); and a second right metatarsal (MNHN.F.LES16d) associated with the skeleton. In 2016, a new specimen, MNHN.F.LES351, was referred to the species; consisting of a cervical vertebra, a left ulna and a, probably left, radius. It might have belonged to the same individual as the holotype, but this cannot be strictly proven.<sup id="cite_ref-Peyre_de_Fabrègues2016_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peyre_de_Fabrègues2016-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meroktenos&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Meroktenos_caudal_vertebra.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Meroktenos_caudal_vertebra.png/220px-Meroktenos_caudal_vertebra.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Meroktenos_caudal_vertebra.png/330px-Meroktenos_caudal_vertebra.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Meroktenos_caudal_vertebra.png/440px-Meroktenos_caudal_vertebra.png 2x" data-file-width="2356" data-file-height="1419" /></a><figcaption>Caudal vertebra</figcaption></figure> <p><i>Meroktenos</i> has a femur length of around forty-eight centimeters,<sup id="cite_ref-Peyre_de_Fabrègues2016_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peyre_de_Fabrègues2016-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> suggesting a body length of about four meters. </p><p>In 2016, a revised list of distinguishing traits was given. The blade height of the ilium, measured from the highest point of the antitrochanter to the upper edge of the blade is 60% of the total height of the ilium, including peduncles. The rear blade of the ilium is roughly triangular in side view. The femur is very compact with a robusticity index, length divided by the circumference of the shaft, of 2.09. The femur has a straight shaft in both side and front views. The femoral shaft is substantially wider transversely than it is wide in side view, with a ratio of 1.58. On the rear of the femoral shaft, the fourth trochanter is oriented obliquely, running from the upper and inner side to the lower and outer side.<sup id="cite_ref-Peyre_de_Fabrègues2016_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peyre_de_Fabrègues2016-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Phylogeny">Phylogeny</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meroktenos&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Phylogeny"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Forelimb_bones_of_Meroktenos.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Forelimb_bones_of_Meroktenos.png/170px-Forelimb_bones_of_Meroktenos.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Forelimb_bones_of_Meroktenos.png/255px-Forelimb_bones_of_Meroktenos.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Forelimb_bones_of_Meroktenos.png/340px-Forelimb_bones_of_Meroktenos.png 2x" data-file-width="1667" data-file-height="2686" /></a><figcaption>Ulna and radius bones of the lower arm</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2016, <i>Meroktenos</i> was placed in the <a href="/wiki/Sauropodomorpha" title="Sauropodomorpha">Sauropodomorpha</a>, in a basal position. According to a <a href="/wiki/Cladistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Cladistic">cladistic</a> analysis, <i>Meroktenos</i> formed a polytomy with <i><a href="/wiki/Blikanasaurus" title="Blikanasaurus">Blikanasaurus</a></i> and more derived taxa, above <i><a href="/wiki/Aardonyx" title="Aardonyx">Aardonyx</a></i> in the evolutionary tree and below a polytomy including <i><a href="/wiki/Camelotia" title="Camelotia">Camelotia</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Melanorosaurus" title="Melanorosaurus">Melanorosaurus</a></i> and more derived groups:<sup id="cite_ref-Peyre_de_Fabrègues2016_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peyre_de_Fabrègues2016-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="clade"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1258728058">body.skin-vector-2022 .mw-parser-output div.clade,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output div.clade{overflow-x:auto;overflow-y:hidden}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output div.clade 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<table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Camelotia" title="Camelotia">Camelotia</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Melanorosaurus" title="Melanorosaurus">Melanorosaurus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Antetonitrus" title="Antetonitrus">Antetonitrus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Lessemsaurus" title="Lessemsaurus">Lessemsaurus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><a href="/wiki/Sauropoda" title="Sauropoda">Sauropoda</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>A 2021 study by Pol and colleagues found <i>Meroktenos</i> to be a member of <a href="/wiki/Lessemsauridae" title="Lessemsauridae">Lessemsauridae</a>, being the sister taxon of a clade formed by <i><a href="/wiki/Kholumolumo" title="Kholumolumo">Kholumolumo</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Ledumahadi" title="Ledumahadi">Ledumahadi</a></i>:<sup id="cite_ref-Pol2021_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pol2021-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="clade"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade" style="font-size:80%; line-height:80%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"><a href="/wiki/Sauropodiformes" class="mw-redirect" title="Sauropodiformes">Sauropodiformes</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Aardonyx" title="Aardonyx">Aardonyx</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Leonerasaurus" title="Leonerasaurus">Leonerasaurus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Mussaurus" title="Mussaurus">Mussaurus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Yizhousaurus" title="Yizhousaurus">Yizhousaurus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p>NMQR1551 </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p>NMQR3314 </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"><a href="/wiki/Sauropoda" title="Sauropoda">Sauropoda</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Camelotia" title="Camelotia">Camelotia</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"><a href="/wiki/Lessemsauridae" title="Lessemsauridae">Lessemsauridae</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Lessemsaurus" title="Lessemsaurus">Lessemsaurus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Antetonitrus" title="Antetonitrus">Antetonitrus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Ingentia" title="Ingentia">Ingentia</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i>Meroktenos</i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Kholumolumo" title="Kholumolumo">Kholumolumo</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Ledumahadi" title="Ledumahadi">Ledumahadi</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Gongxianosaurus" title="Gongxianosaurus">Gongxianosaurus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Pulanesaura" title="Pulanesaura">Pulanesaura</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Schleitheimia" title="Schleitheimia">Schleitheimia</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Isanosaurus" title="Isanosaurus">Isanosaurus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"><a href="/wiki/Sauropoda" title="Sauropoda">Sauropoda</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1258728058"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Tazoudasaurus" title="Tazoudasaurus">Tazoudasaurus</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Vulcanodon" title="Vulcanodon">Vulcanodon</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><a href="/wiki/Eusauropoda" title="Eusauropoda">Eusauropoda</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last">(<i>sensu</i> Salgado <i>et al.</i> (1997)) </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last">(<i>sensu</i> Yates (2007)) </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Palaeobiology">Palaeobiology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meroktenos&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Palaeobiology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The relative transverse width of the femur, the eccentricity, is remarkably high for such a small animal. These proportions were known previously only from <a href="/wiki/Sauropoda" title="Sauropoda">Sauropoda</a> and explained as an adaptation to a very high absolute weight. Because the holotype probably was not a young animal and is unlikely to have attained giant proportions, the trait must have had a different function.<sup id="cite_ref-Peyre_de_Fabrègues2016_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Peyre_de_Fabrègues2016-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meroktenos&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2016_in_paleontology" title="2016 in paleontology">2016 in paleontology</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meroktenos&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 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0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Jaklapallisaurus" title="Jaklapallisaurus">Jaklapallisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Macrocollum" title="Macrocollum">Macrocollum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Unaysaurus" title="Unaysaurus">Unaysaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;-webkit-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-moz-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-ms-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-o-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);"><a href="/wiki/Plateosauria" class="mw-redirect" title="Plateosauria">Plateosauria</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Plateosauravus" title="Plateosauravus">Plateosauravus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ruehleia" title="Ruehleia">Ruehleia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Xixiposaurus" title="Xixiposaurus">Xixiposaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Plateosauridae" title="Plateosauridae">Plateosauridae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Euskelosaurus" title="Euskelosaurus">Euskelosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gresslyosaurus" title="Gresslyosaurus">Gresslyosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Issi" title="Issi">Issi</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pachysauriscus" title="Pachysauriscus">Pachysauriscus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Plateosaurus" title="Plateosaurus">Plateosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yimenosaurus" title="Yimenosaurus">Yimenosaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;-webkit-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-moz-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-ms-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-o-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);"><a href="/wiki/Massopoda" title="Massopoda">Massopoda</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Gryponyx" title="Gryponyx">Gryponyx</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gyposaurus" title="Gyposaurus">Gyposaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ignavusaurus" title="Ignavusaurus">Ignavusaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kholumolumo" title="Kholumolumo">Kholumolumo</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Musankwa" title="Musankwa">Musankwa</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sarahsaurus" title="Sarahsaurus">Sarahsaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tuebingosaurus" title="Tuebingosaurus">Tuebingosaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Riojasauridae" title="Riojasauridae">Riojasauridae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Eucnemesaurus" title="Eucnemesaurus">Eucnemesaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Riojasaurus" title="Riojasaurus">Riojasaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Massospondylidae" title="Massospondylidae">Massospondylidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Adeopapposaurus" title="Adeopapposaurus">Adeopapposaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Coloradisaurus" title="Coloradisaurus">Coloradisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Glacialisaurus" title="Glacialisaurus">Glacialisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ignavusaurus" title="Ignavusaurus">Ignavusaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Leyesaurus" title="Leyesaurus">Leyesaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lufengosaurus" title="Lufengosaurus">Lufengosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Massospondylus" title="Massospondylus">Massospondylus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ngwevu" title="Ngwevu">Ngwevu</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pradhania" title="Pradhania">Pradhania</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sarahsaurus" title="Sarahsaurus">Sarahsaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Xingxiulong" title="Xingxiulong">Xingxiulong</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sauropodiformes" class="mw-redirect" title="Sauropodiformes">Sauropodiformes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Chuxiongosaurus" title="Chuxiongosaurus">Chuxiongosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jingshanosaurus" title="Jingshanosaurus">Jingshanosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Qianlong_shouhu" title="Qianlong shouhu">Qianlong</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Seitaad" title="Seitaad">Seitaad</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Xingxiulong" title="Xingxiulong">Xingxiulong</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yizhousaurus" title="Yizhousaurus">Yizhousaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yunnanosaurus" title="Yunnanosaurus">Yunnanosaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Anchisauria" title="Anchisauria">Anchisauria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Aardonyx" title="Aardonyx">Aardonyx</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Anchisaurus" title="Anchisaurus">Anchisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Camelotia" title="Camelotia">Camelotia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Irisosaurus" title="Irisosaurus">Irisosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lamplughsaura" title="Lamplughsaura">Lamplughsaura</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Leonerasaurus" title="Leonerasaurus">Leonerasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Melanorosaurus" title="Melanorosaurus">Melanorosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Meroktenos</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mussaurus" title="Mussaurus">Mussaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pulanesaura" title="Pulanesaura">Pulanesaura</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sefapanosaurus" title="Sefapanosaurus">Sefapanosaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sauropoda" title="Sauropoda">Sauropoda</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><ul><li>see below↓</li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Buriolestes_schultzi_restoration.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Buriolestes schultzi"><img alt="Buriolestes schultzi" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Buriolestes_schultzi_restoration.png/140px-Buriolestes_schultzi_restoration.png" decoding="async" width="140" height="47" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Buriolestes_schultzi_restoration.png/210px-Buriolestes_schultzi_restoration.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Buriolestes_schultzi_restoration.png/280px-Buriolestes_schultzi_restoration.png 2x" data-file-width="3357" data-file-height="1131" /></a></span> <p><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pantydraco_BW.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pantydraco caducus"><img alt="Pantydraco caducus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Pantydraco_BW.jpg/140px-Pantydraco_BW.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="64" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Pantydraco_BW.jpg/210px-Pantydraco_BW.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Pantydraco_BW.jpg/280px-Pantydraco_BW.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="364" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Massospondylus_reconstruction.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Massospondylus carinatus"><img alt="Massospondylus carinatus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Massospondylus_reconstruction.png/140px-Massospondylus_reconstruction.png" decoding="async" width="140" height="62" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Massospondylus_reconstruction.png/210px-Massospondylus_reconstruction.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Massospondylus_reconstruction.png/280px-Massospondylus_reconstruction.png 2x" data-file-width="1306" data-file-height="579" /></a></span> </p> <span style="display: inline-block; transform: scaleX(-1);"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jingshanosaurus_xinwaensis.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Jingshanosaurus xinwaensis"><img alt="Jingshanosaurus xinwaensis" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Jingshanosaurus_xinwaensis.png/140px-Jingshanosaurus_xinwaensis.png" decoding="async" width="140" height="46" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Jingshanosaurus_xinwaensis.png/210px-Jingshanosaurus_xinwaensis.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Jingshanosaurus_xinwaensis.png/280px-Jingshanosaurus_xinwaensis.png 2x" data-file-width="1900" data-file-height="619" /></a></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><div id="Sauropoda" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Sauropoda" title="Sauropoda">Sauropoda</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Sauropoda" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;-webkit-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-moz-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-ms-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-o-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);"><a href="/wiki/Sauropoda" title="Sauropoda">Sauropoda</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Amygdalodon" title="Amygdalodon">Amygdalodon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blikanasaurus" title="Blikanasaurus">Blikanasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chinshakiangosaurus" title="Chinshakiangosaurus">Chinshakiangosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gongxianosaurus" title="Gongxianosaurus">Gongxianosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Isanosaurus" title="Isanosaurus">Isanosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Leonerasaurus" title="Leonerasaurus">Leonerasaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pulanesaura" title="Pulanesaura">Pulanesaura</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Protognathosaurus" title="Protognathosaurus">Protognathosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Schleitheimia" title="Schleitheimia">Schleitheimia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tuebingosaurus" title="Tuebingosaurus">Tuebingosaurus</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Lessemsauridae" title="Lessemsauridae">Lessemsauridae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Antetonitrus" title="Antetonitrus">Antetonitrus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ingentia" title="Ingentia">Ingentia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ledumahadi" title="Ledumahadi">Ledumahadi</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lessemsaurus" title="Lessemsaurus">Lessemsaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;-webkit-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-moz-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-ms-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-o-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);"><a href="/wiki/Gravisauria" class="mw-redirect" title="Gravisauria">Gravisauria</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Archaeodontosaurus" title="Archaeodontosaurus">Archaeodontosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kotasaurus" title="Kotasaurus">Kotasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ohmdenosaurus" title="Ohmdenosaurus">Ohmdenosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rhoetosaurus" title="Rhoetosaurus">Rhoetosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sanpasaurus" title="Sanpasaurus">Sanpasaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zizhongosaurus" title="Zizhongosaurus">Zizhongosaurus</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Vulcanodontidae" title="Vulcanodontidae">Vulcanodontidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Tazoudasaurus" title="Tazoudasaurus">Tazoudasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vulcanodon" title="Vulcanodon">Vulcanodon</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;-webkit-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-moz-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-ms-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-o-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);"><a href="/wiki/Eusauropoda" title="Eusauropoda">Eusauropoda</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Algoasaurus" title="Algoasaurus">Algoasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Asiatosaurus" title="Asiatosaurus">Asiatosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bagualia" title="Bagualia">Bagualia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Barapasaurus" title="Barapasaurus">Barapasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bellusaurus" title="Bellusaurus">Bellusaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cetiosauriscus" title="Cetiosauriscus">Cetiosauriscus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dashanpusaurus" title="Dashanpusaurus">Dashanpusaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dystrophaeus" title="Dystrophaeus">Dystrophaeus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Janenschia" title="Janenschia">Janenschia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jobaria" title="Jobaria">Jobaria</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nebulasaurus" title="Nebulasaurus">Nebulasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Perijasaurus" title="Perijasaurus">Perijasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shunosaurus" title="Shunosaurus">Shunosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Spinophorosaurus" title="Spinophorosaurus">Spinophorosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tehuelchesaurus" title="Tehuelchesaurus">Tehuelchesaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Volkheimeria" title="Volkheimeria">Volkheimeria</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cetiosauridae" title="Cetiosauridae">Cetiosauridae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Cetiosaurus" title="Cetiosaurus">Cetiosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chebsaurus" title="Chebsaurus">Chebsaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ferganasaurus" title="Ferganasaurus">Ferganasaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lapparentosaurus" title="Lapparentosaurus">Lapparentosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Patagosaurus" title="Patagosaurus">Patagosaurus</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Mamenchisauridae" title="Mamenchisauridae">Mamenchisauridae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Analong" title="Analong">Analong</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Anhuilong" title="Anhuilong">Anhuilong</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cetiosauriscus" title="Cetiosauriscus">Cetiosauriscus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chuanjiesaurus" title="Chuanjiesaurus">Chuanjiesaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Datousaurus" title="Datousaurus">Datousaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Eomamenchisaurus" title="Eomamenchisaurus">Eomamenchisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Huangshanlong" title="Huangshanlong">Huangshanlong</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hudiesaurus" title="Hudiesaurus">Hudiesaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jingiella" title="Jingiella">Jingiella</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Klamelisaurus" title="Klamelisaurus">Klamelisaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mamenchisaurus" title="Mamenchisaurus">Mamenchisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Omeisaurus" title="Omeisaurus">Omeisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Qijianglong" title="Qijianglong">Qijianglong</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rhomaleopakhus" title="Rhomaleopakhus">Rhomaleopakhus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tienshanosaurus" title="Tienshanosaurus">Tienshanosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tonganosaurus" title="Tonganosaurus">Tonganosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wamweracaudia" title="Wamweracaudia">Wamweracaudia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Xinjiangtitan" title="Xinjiangtitan">Xinjiangtitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yuanmousaurus" title="Yuanmousaurus">Yuanmousaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zigongosaurus" title="Zigongosaurus">Zigongosaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Turiasauria" title="Turiasauria">Turiasauria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Amanzia" title="Amanzia">Amanzia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bellusaurus" title="Bellusaurus">Bellusaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Haestasaurus" title="Haestasaurus">Haestasaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Janenschia" title="Janenschia">Janenschia</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Losillasaurus" title="Losillasaurus">Losillasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mierasaurus" title="Mierasaurus">Mierasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Moabosaurus" title="Moabosaurus">Moabosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Narindasaurus" title="Narindasaurus">Narindasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oplosaurus" title="Oplosaurus">Oplosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tehuelchesaurus" title="Tehuelchesaurus">Tehuelchesaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tendaguria" title="Tendaguria">Tendaguria</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Turiasaurus" title="Turiasaurus">Turiasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zby" title="Zby">Zby</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Neosauropoda" title="Neosauropoda">Neosauropoda</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Diplodocoidea" title="Diplodocoidea">Diplodocoidea</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>(see below ↓ )</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Macronaria" title="Macronaria">Macronaria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>(see below ↓ )</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Dubious_sauropods" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Dubious sauropods</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Bothriospondylus" title="Bothriospondylus">Bothriospondylus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cardiodon" title="Cardiodon">Cardiodon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dinodocus" title="Dinodocus">Dinodocus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gigantosaurus" title="Gigantosaurus">Gigantosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Neosodon" title="Neosodon">Neosodon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Qinlingosaurus" title="Qinlingosaurus">Qinlingosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ultrasaurus" title="Ultrasaurus">Ultrasaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span style="display: inline-block; transform: scaleX(-1);"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Vulcanodon_NT.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Vulcanodon karibaensis"><img alt="Vulcanodon karibaensis" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Vulcanodon_NT.jpg/140px-Vulcanodon_NT.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="52" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Vulcanodon_NT.jpg/210px-Vulcanodon_NT.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Vulcanodon_NT.jpg/280px-Vulcanodon_NT.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="224" /></a></span></span> <p><span style="display: inline-block; transform: scaleX(-1);"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Barapasaurus_DB.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Barapasaurus tagorei"><img alt="Barapasaurus tagorei" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Barapasaurus_DB.jpg/140px-Barapasaurus_DB.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="63" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Barapasaurus_DB.jpg/210px-Barapasaurus_DB.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Barapasaurus_DB.jpg/280px-Barapasaurus_DB.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1553" data-file-height="694" /></a></span></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Patagosaurus.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Patagosaurus fariasi"><img alt="Patagosaurus fariasi" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Patagosaurus.jpg/140px-Patagosaurus.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="52" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Patagosaurus.jpg/210px-Patagosaurus.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Patagosaurus.jpg/280px-Patagosaurus.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2257" data-file-height="845" /></a></span> </p> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Turiasaurus1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Turiasaurus riodevnesis"><img alt="Turiasaurus riodevnesis" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Turiasaurus1.jpg/140px-Turiasaurus1.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Turiasaurus1.jpg/210px-Turiasaurus1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Turiasaurus1.jpg/280px-Turiasaurus1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2507" data-file-height="1261" /></a></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><div id="Diplodocoidea" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Diplodocoidea" title="Diplodocoidea">Diplodocoidea</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Diplodocoidea" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;-webkit-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-moz-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-ms-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-o-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);"><a href="/wiki/Diplodocoidea" title="Diplodocoidea">Diplodocoidea</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Haplocanthosaurus" title="Haplocanthosaurus">Haplocanthosaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;-webkit-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-moz-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-ms-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-o-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);"><a href="/wiki/Diplodocimorpha" class="mw-redirect" title="Diplodocimorpha">Diplodocimorpha</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Rebbachisauridae" title="Rebbachisauridae">Rebbachisauridae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Agustinia" title="Agustinia">Agustinia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amazonsaurus" title="Amazonsaurus">Amazonsaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Campananeyen" title="Campananeyen">Campananeyen</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Comahuesaurus" title="Comahuesaurus">Comahuesaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dzharatitanis" title="Dzharatitanis">Dzharatitanis</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Histriasaurus" title="Histriasaurus">Histriasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lavocatisaurus" title="Lavocatisaurus">Lavocatisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Maraapunisaurus" title="Maraapunisaurus">Maraapunisaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nopcsaspondylus" title="Nopcsaspondylus">Nopcsaspondylus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sidersaura" title="Sidersaura">Sidersaura</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Xenoposeidon" title="Xenoposeidon">Xenoposeidon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zapalasaurus" title="Zapalasaurus">Zapalasaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Khebbashia" class="mw-redirect" title="Khebbashia">Khebbashia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Limaysaurinae" class="mw-redirect" title="Limaysaurinae">Limaysaurinae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Cathartesaura" title="Cathartesaura">Cathartesaura</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Limaysaurus" title="Limaysaurus">Limaysaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rayososaurus" title="Rayososaurus">Rayososaurus</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Rebbachisaurinae" class="mw-redirect" title="Rebbachisaurinae">Rebbachisaurinae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Demandasaurus" title="Demandasaurus">Demandasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Itapeuasaurus" title="Itapeuasaurus">Itapeuasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Katepensaurus" title="Katepensaurus">Katepensaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nigersaurus" title="Nigersaurus">Nigersaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rebbachisaurus" title="Rebbachisaurus">Rebbachisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tataouinea" title="Tataouinea">Tataouinea</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Flagellicaudata" class="mw-redirect" title="Flagellicaudata">Flagellicaudata</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dicraeosauridae" title="Dicraeosauridae">Dicraeosauridae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Amargasaurus" title="Amargasaurus">Amargasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amargatitanis" title="Amargatitanis">Amargatitanis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bajadasaurus" title="Bajadasaurus">Bajadasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brachytrachelopan" title="Brachytrachelopan">Brachytrachelopan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dicraeosaurus" title="Dicraeosaurus">Dicraeosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dyslocosaurus" title="Dyslocosaurus">Dyslocosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kaatedocus" title="Kaatedocus">Kaatedocus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lingwulong" title="Lingwulong">Lingwulong</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pilmatueia" title="Pilmatueia">Pilmatueia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Smitanosaurus" title="Smitanosaurus">Smitanosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Suuwassea" title="Suuwassea">Suuwassea</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tharosaurus" title="Tharosaurus">Tharosaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Diplodocidae" title="Diplodocidae">Diplodocidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Apatosaurinae" title="Apatosaurinae">Apatosaurinae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Amphicoelias" title="Amphicoelias">Amphicoelias</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apatosaurus" title="Apatosaurus">Apatosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atlantosaurus" title="Atlantosaurus">Atlantosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brontosaurus" title="Brontosaurus">Brontosaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Diplodocinae" title="Diplodocinae">Diplodocinae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Ardetosaurus" title="Ardetosaurus">Ardetosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Barosaurus" title="Barosaurus">Barosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dinheirosaurus" title="Dinheirosaurus">Dinheirosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Diplodocus" title="Diplodocus">Diplodocus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Galeamopus" title="Galeamopus">Galeamopus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kaatedocus" title="Kaatedocus">Kaatedocus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Leinkupal" title="Leinkupal">Leinkupal</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Supersaurus" title="Supersaurus">Supersaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tornieria" title="Tornieria">Tornieria</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Dicraeosaurus_hansemanni22.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Dicraeosaurus hansemanni"><img alt="Dicraeosaurus hansemanni" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Dicraeosaurus_hansemanni22.jpg/140px-Dicraeosaurus_hansemanni22.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="44" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Dicraeosaurus_hansemanni22.jpg/210px-Dicraeosaurus_hansemanni22.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Dicraeosaurus_hansemanni22.jpg/280px-Dicraeosaurus_hansemanni22.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2269" data-file-height="718" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Diplodocus_carnegii.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Diplodocus carnegii"><img alt="Diplodocus carnegii" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Diplodocus_carnegii.jpg/140px-Diplodocus_carnegii.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Diplodocus_carnegii.jpg/210px-Diplodocus_carnegii.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Diplodocus_carnegii.jpg/280px-Diplodocus_carnegii.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5362" data-file-height="2578" /></a></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><div id="Macronaria" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Macronaria" title="Macronaria">Macronaria</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Macronaria" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;-webkit-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-moz-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-ms-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-o-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);"><a href="/wiki/Macronaria" title="Macronaria">Macronaria</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Abrosaurus" title="Abrosaurus">Abrosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Aragosaurus" title="Aragosaurus">Aragosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bashunosaurus" title="Bashunosaurus">Bashunosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Daanosaurus" title="Daanosaurus">Daanosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dashanpusaurus" title="Dashanpusaurus">Dashanpusaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Europasaurus" title="Europasaurus">Europasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Haestasaurus" title="Haestasaurus">Haestasaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yuzhoulong" title="Yuzhoulong">Yuzhoulong</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Camarasauridae" title="Camarasauridae">Camarasauridae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Camarasaurus" title="Camarasaurus">Camarasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lourinhasaurus" title="Lourinhasaurus">Lourinhasaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;-webkit-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-moz-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-ms-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-o-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);"><a href="/wiki/Titanosauriformes" class="mw-redirect" title="Titanosauriformes">Titanosauriformes</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Astrodon" title="Astrodon">Astrodon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Duriatitan" title="Duriatitan">Duriatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Eucamerotus" title="Eucamerotus">Eucamerotus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fushanosaurus" title="Fushanosaurus">Fushanosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fusuisaurus" title="Fusuisaurus">Fusuisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ornithopsis" title="Ornithopsis">Ornithopsis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pelorosaurus" title="Pelorosaurus">Pelorosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rugocaudia" title="Rugocaudia">Rugocaudia</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Brachiosauridae" title="Brachiosauridae">Brachiosauridae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Abydosaurus" title="Abydosaurus">Abydosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atlasaurus" title="Atlasaurus">Atlasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brachiosaurus" title="Brachiosaurus">Brachiosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cedarosaurus" title="Cedarosaurus">Cedarosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Galvesaurus" title="Galvesaurus">Galvesaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Giraffatitan" title="Giraffatitan">Giraffatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lusotitan" title="Lusotitan">Lusotitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sonorasaurus" title="Sonorasaurus">Sonorasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Soriatitan" title="Soriatitan">Soriatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Venenosaurus" title="Venenosaurus">Venenosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Vouivria" title="Vouivria">Vouivria</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Somphospondyli" title="Somphospondyli">Somphospondyli</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Angolatitan" title="Angolatitan">Angolatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Arkharavia" title="Arkharavia">Arkharavia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Astrophocaudia" title="Astrophocaudia">Astrophocaudia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Austrosaurus" title="Austrosaurus">Austrosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brohisaurus" title="Brohisaurus">Brohisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brontomerus" title="Brontomerus">Brontomerus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chubutisaurus" title="Chubutisaurus">Chubutisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dongbeititan" title="Dongbeititan">Dongbeititan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Europatitan" title="Europatitan">Europatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fukuititan" title="Fukuititan">Fukuititan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Garumbatitan" title="Garumbatitan">Garumbatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jiangxititan" title="Jiangxititan">Jiangxititan</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jiutaisaurus" title="Jiutaisaurus">Jiutaisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Liaoningotitan" title="Liaoningotitan">Liaoningotitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ligabuesaurus" title="Ligabuesaurus">Ligabuesaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Liubangosaurus" title="Liubangosaurus">Liubangosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oceanotitan" title="Oceanotitan">Oceanotitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Padillasaurus" title="Padillasaurus">Padillasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pukyongosaurus" title="Pukyongosaurus">Pukyongosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ruixinia" title="Ruixinia">Ruixinia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sauroposeidon" title="Sauroposeidon">Sauroposeidon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sibirotitan" title="Sibirotitan">Sibirotitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tastavinsaurus" title="Tastavinsaurus">Tastavinsaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Triunfosaurus" title="Triunfosaurus">Triunfosaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Euhelopodidae" title="Euhelopodidae">Euhelopodidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Australodocus" title="Australodocus">Australodocus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chiayusaurus" title="Chiayusaurus">Chiayusaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Erketu" title="Erketu">Erketu</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Euhelopus" title="Euhelopus">Euhelopus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gannansaurus" title="Gannansaurus">Gannansaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gobititan" title="Gobititan">Gobititan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Huabeisaurus" title="Huabeisaurus">Huabeisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Huanghetitan" title="Huanghetitan">Huanghetitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jiangshanosaurus" title="Jiangshanosaurus">Jiangshanosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Phuwiangosaurus" title="Phuwiangosaurus">Phuwiangosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Qiaowanlong" title="Qiaowanlong">Qiaowanlong</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Silutitan" title="Silutitan">Silutitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tambatitanis" title="Tambatitanis">Tambatitanis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tangvayosaurus" title="Tangvayosaurus">Tangvayosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yongjinglong" title="Yongjinglong">Yongjinglong</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yunmenglong" title="Yunmenglong">Yunmenglong</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Diamantinasauria" title="Diamantinasauria">Diamantinasauria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Australotitan" title="Australotitan">Australotitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Diamantinasaurus" title="Diamantinasaurus">Diamantinasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sarmientosaurus" title="Sarmientosaurus">Sarmientosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Savannasaurus" title="Savannasaurus">Savannasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wintonotitan" title="Wintonotitan">Wintonotitan</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Titanosauria" title="Titanosauria">Titanosauria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><ul><li>see below↓</li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span style="display: inline-block; transform: scaleX(-1);"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pelorosaurus2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pelorosaurus brevis"><img alt="Pelorosaurus brevis" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Pelorosaurus2.jpg/140px-Pelorosaurus2.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="88" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Pelorosaurus2.jpg/210px-Pelorosaurus2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Pelorosaurus2.jpg/280px-Pelorosaurus2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5904" data-file-height="3712" /></a></span></span> <p><span style="display: inline-block; transform: scaleX(-1);"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sauroposeidon_proteles.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sauroposeidon proteles"><img alt="Sauroposeidon proteles" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Sauroposeidon_proteles.jpg/140px-Sauroposeidon_proteles.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Sauroposeidon_proteles.jpg/210px-Sauroposeidon_proteles.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Sauroposeidon_proteles.jpg/280px-Sauroposeidon_proteles.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3088" data-file-height="1976" /></a></span></span> </p> <span style="display: inline-block; transform: scaleX(-1);"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wintonotitan.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Wintonotitan wattsi"><img alt="Wintonotitan wattsi" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Wintonotitan.png/140px-Wintonotitan.png" decoding="async" width="140" height="43" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Wintonotitan.png/210px-Wintonotitan.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Wintonotitan.png/280px-Wintonotitan.png 2x" data-file-width="2773" data-file-height="861" /></a></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><div id="Titanosauria" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Titanosauria" title="Titanosauria">Titanosauria</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Titanosauria" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;-webkit-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-moz-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-ms-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-o-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);"><a href="/wiki/Titanosauria" title="Titanosauria">Titanosauria</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Abdarainurus" title="Abdarainurus">Abdarainurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Aegyptosaurus" title="Aegyptosaurus">Aegyptosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Andesaurus" title="Andesaurus">Andesaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Angolatitan" title="Angolatitan">Angolatitan</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Arackar" title="Arackar">Arackar</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Argyrosaurus" title="Argyrosaurus">Argyrosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atacamatitan" title="Atacamatitan">Atacamatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Austroposeidon" title="Austroposeidon">Austroposeidon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Baotianmansaurus" title="Baotianmansaurus">Baotianmansaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Barrosasaurus" title="Barrosasaurus">Barrosasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Baurutitan" title="Baurutitan">Baurutitan</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bonatitan" title="Bonatitan">Bonatitan</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Borealosaurus" title="Borealosaurus">Borealosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brasilotitan" title="Brasilotitan">Brasilotitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Choconsaurus" title="Choconsaurus">Choconsaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Daxiatitan" title="Daxiatitan">Daxiatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dongyangosaurus" title="Dongyangosaurus">Dongyangosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dreadnoughtus" title="Dreadnoughtus">Dreadnoughtus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Elaltitan" title="Elaltitan">Elaltitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epachthosaurus" title="Epachthosaurus">Epachthosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gandititan" title="Gandititan">Gandititan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hamititan" title="Hamititan">Hamititan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Huabeisaurus" title="Huabeisaurus">Huabeisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jiangshanosaurus" title="Jiangshanosaurus">Jiangshanosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kaijutitan" title="Kaijutitan">Kaijutitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Karongasaurus" title="Karongasaurus">Karongasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Laplatasaurus" title="Laplatasaurus">Laplatasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ligabuesaurus" title="Ligabuesaurus">Ligabuesaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Magyarosaurus" title="Magyarosaurus">Magyarosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Malarguesaurus" title="Malarguesaurus">Malarguesaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Malawisaurus" title="Malawisaurus">Malawisaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mnyamawamtuka" title="Mnyamawamtuka">Mnyamawamtuka</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Narambuenatitan" title="Narambuenatitan">Narambuenatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ninjatitan" title="Ninjatitan">Ninjatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Normanniasaurus" title="Normanniasaurus">Normanniasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nullotitan" title="Nullotitan">Nullotitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pellegrinisaurus" title="Pellegrinisaurus">Pellegrinisaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Petrobrasaurus" title="Petrobrasaurus">Petrobrasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pitekunsaurus" title="Pitekunsaurus">Pitekunsaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rapetosaurus" title="Rapetosaurus">Rapetosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rukwatitan" title="Rukwatitan">Rukwatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ruyangosaurus" title="Ruyangosaurus">Ruyangosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tastavinsaurus" title="Tastavinsaurus">Tastavinsaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tengrisaurus" title="Tengrisaurus">Tengrisaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tiamat_valdecii" title="Tiamat valdecii">Tiamat</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Traukutitan" title="Traukutitan">Traukutitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Trigonosaurus" title="Trigonosaurus">Trigonosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sonidosaurus" title="Sonidosaurus">Sonidosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Uberabatitan" title="Uberabatitan">Uberabatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Volgatitan" title="Volgatitan">Volgatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Xianshanosaurus" title="Xianshanosaurus">Xianshanosaurus</a></i></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Diamantinasauria" title="Diamantinasauria">Diamantinasauria</a></b>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Lirainosaurinae" title="Lirainosaurinae">Lirainosaurinae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Ampelosaurus" title="Ampelosaurus">Ampelosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atsinganosaurus" title="Atsinganosaurus">Atsinganosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Garrigatitan" title="Garrigatitan">Garrigatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lirainosaurus" title="Lirainosaurus">Lirainosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lohuecotitan" title="Lohuecotitan">Lohuecotitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mansourasaurus" title="Mansourasaurus">Mansourasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paludititan" title="Paludititan">Paludititan</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;-webkit-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-moz-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-ms-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);-o-transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);transform:translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);"><a href="/wiki/Eutitanosauria" title="Eutitanosauria">Eutitanosauria</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Inawentu" title="Inawentu">Inawentu</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Menucocelsior" title="Menucocelsior">Menucocelsior</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Colossosauria" title="Colossosauria">Colossosauria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Antarctosaurus" title="Antarctosaurus">Antarctosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a 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href="/wiki/Arrudatitan" title="Arrudatitan">Arrudatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bravasaurus" title="Bravasaurus">Bravasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Caieiria" title="Caieiria">Caieiria</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gondwanatitan" title="Gondwanatitan">Gondwanatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Punatitan" title="Punatitan">Punatitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shingopana" title="Shingopana">Shingopana</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Lognkosauria" title="Lognkosauria">Lognkosauria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Argentinosaurus" title="Argentinosaurus">Argentinosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Drusilasaura" title="Drusilasaura">Drusilasaura</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dzharatitanis" title="Dzharatitanis">Dzharatitanis</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Futalognkosaurus" title="Futalognkosaurus">Futalognkosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jiangxititan" title="Jiangxititan">Jiangxititan</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mendozasaurus" title="Mendozasaurus">Mendozasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Notocolossus" title="Notocolossus">Notocolossus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Patagotitan" title="Patagotitan">Patagotitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Puertasaurus" title="Puertasaurus">Puertasaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Saltasauroidea" title="Saltasauroidea">Saltasauroidea</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Bustingorrytitan" title="Bustingorrytitan">Bustingorrytitan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Titanomachya" title="Titanomachya">Titanomachya</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Udelartitan" title="Udelartitan">Udelartitan</a></i></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nemegtosauridae" title="Nemegtosauridae">Nemegtosauridae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Nemegtosaurus" title="Nemegtosaurus">Nemegtosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Quaesitosaurus" title="Quaesitosaurus">Quaesitosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tapuiasaurus" title="Tapuiasaurus">Tapuiasaurus</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Saltasauridae" title="Saltasauridae">Saltasauridae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Igai" title="Igai">Igai</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Isisaurus" title="Isisaurus">Isisaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Qingxiusaurus" title="Qingxiusaurus">Qingxiusaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Quaesitosaurus" title="Quaesitosaurus">Quaesitosaurus</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Opisthocoelicaudiinae" title="Opisthocoelicaudiinae">Opisthocoelicaudiinae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Abditosaurus" title="Abditosaurus">Abditosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alamosaurus" title="Alamosaurus">Alamosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Baurutitan" title="Baurutitan">Baurutitan</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dreadnoughtus" title="Dreadnoughtus">Dreadnoughtus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Opisthocoelicaudia" title="Opisthocoelicaudia">Opisthocoelicaudia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pellegrinisaurus" title="Pellegrinisaurus">Pellegrinisaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Qunkasaura" title="Qunkasaura">Qunkasaura</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zhuchengtitan" title="Zhuchengtitan">Zhuchengtitan</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Saltasaurinae" title="Saltasaurinae">Saltasaurinae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Abditosaurus" title="Abditosaurus">Abditosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bonatitan" title="Bonatitan">Bonatitan</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ibirania" title="Ibirania">Ibirania</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Maxakalisaurus" title="Maxakalisaurus">Maxakalisaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Neuquensaurus" title="Neuquensaurus">Neuquensaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paralititan" title="Paralititan">Paralititan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rocasaurus" title="Rocasaurus">Rocasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Saltasaurus" title="Saltasaurus">Saltasaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yamanasaurus" title="Yamanasaurus">Yamanasaurus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Dubious_titanosaurs" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Dubious titanosaurs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Bruhathkayosaurus" title="Bruhathkayosaurus">Bruhathkayosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Campylodoniscus" title="Campylodoniscus">Campylodoniscus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Clasmodosaurus" title="Clasmodosaurus">Clasmodosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hypselosaurus" title="Hypselosaurus">Hypselosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Iuticosaurus" title="Iuticosaurus">Iuticosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Loricosaurus" title="Loricosaurus">Loricosaurus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Macrurosaurus" title="Macrurosaurus">Macrurosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Microcoelus" title="Microcoelus">Microcoelus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mongolosaurus" title="Mongolosaurus">Mongolosaurus</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Titanosaurus" 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