Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Sauropodomorpha

Phylogeny

Node-based clade

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).

Defined by the most recent common ancestor (and all its descendants) of

†Massospondylus (Genus) Owen, 1854		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Plateosaurus (Genus) Meyer, 1837		Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).

Node-based clade

†Plateosauria (Clade) Tornier 1913 [Sereno 1998]

Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: 251.

Current position

†Bagualosauria (Clade) Langer, McPhee, Marsola, Roberto-da-Silva & Cabreira 2019

Ref: Langer et al., 2019: fig. 27.

Alternative positions

†Prosauropoda (Clade) Huene 1920 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: 249 (fig. 12.11).
†Sauropodomorpha (Clade) Huene 1932 [Salgado et al. 1997]	Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: 612 (fig. 17).

Historical positions

†Sauropodomorpha (Clade) Huene 1932 [Salgado et al. 1997]	Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: 612 (fig. 17).
†Prosauropoda (Clade) Huene 1920 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: 251; 249 (fig. 12.11).
†Prosauropoda (Clade) Huene 1920 [Sereno 1998]	Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63), fig. 7A.

Number of Subtaxa

2024

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

†17f;238g;151s