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Monotypic taxon: Genus †Opisthocoelicaudia Borsuk-Białynicka, 1977 (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

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

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

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

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Saltasaurinae (Clade) Powell 1992 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).

Current position

Opisthocoelicaudiinae (Subfamily) McIntosh, 1990 Ref: T. Maryańska, 2000: 457.

Alternative positions

Camarasauridae (Family) Cope, 1877 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 143.
Opisthocoelicaudiinae (Clade) Ref: V. Díez Díaz et al., 2018: 452 (fig. 17).
Saltasauridae (Clade) Sereno 1998 Ref: M.D. D'Emic, 2012: 639 (fig. 5).

Historical positions

Lithostrotia (Clade) Upchurch, Barrett & Dodson 2004 Ref: B.J. González Riga et al., 2018: figs. 27, 28.
Opisthocoelicaudiinae (Clade) Ref: V. Díez Díaz et al., 2018: 452 (fig. 17).
Lithostrotia (Clade) Upchurch, Barrett & Dodson 2004 Ref: B.B. Britt et al., 2017: 234 (fig. 35).
Titanosauria (Clade) Bonaparte & Coria 1993 Ref: P.A. Gallina & A. Otero, 2015: 498 (fig. 7).
Saltasauridae (Clade) Sereno 1998 Ref: M.D. D'Emic, 2012: 639 (fig. 5).
Saltasauridae (Clade) Sereno 1998 Ref: P. Upchurch et al., 2004: table 13.1 (p. [270]), 297 (fig. 13.18).
Camarasauridae (Family) Cope, 1877 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 143.

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 †1s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000: 15 Jan 2019 [; †1s]
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