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Taxon: Genus †Diplodocus Marsh, 1878 (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Flagellicaudata (Clade) Harris & Dodson 2004 Ref: J.A. Whitlock, 2011: table 5 (p. 883) (Harris & Dodson, 2004).
Neosauropoda (Clade) Bonaparte 1986 [Wilson & Sereno 1998] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
Neosauropoda (Clade) Bonaparte 1986 [Wilson & Sereno 1998] Ref: J.A. Whitlock, 2011: table 5 (p. 883) (Wilson & Sereno, 1998).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

Diplodocidae (Clade) Marsh 1884 [Sereno 1998] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
Diplodocidae (Clade) Marsh 1884 [Sereno 1998] Ref: J.A. Whitlock, 2011: table 5 (p. 883) (Sereno, 1998).
Diplodocoidea (Clade) Upchurch 1995 [Wilson & Sereno 1998] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
Diplodocoidea (Clade) Upchurch 1995 [Wilson & Sereno 1998] Ref: J.A. Whitlock, 2011: table 5 (p. 883) (Wilson & Sereno, 1998).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

Dicraeosauridae (Clade) Huene 1956 [Sereno 1998] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
Dicraeosauridae (Clade) Huene 1956 [Sereno 1998] Ref: J.A. Whitlock, 2011: table 5 (p. 883) (Sereno, 1998).
Macronaria (Clade) Wilson & Sereno 1998 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
Rebbachisauridae (Clade) Bonaparte 1997 [Wilson 2004] Ref: J.A. Whitlock, 2011: table 5 (p. 883) (Wilson, in Salgado et al., 2004).

Current position

Diplodocinae (Subfamily) Marsh, 1884 Ref: 9 Apr 2008

Alternative positions

Dicraeosauridae (Family) Janensch, 1929 Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1971): 596.
Diplodocidae (Clade) Marsh 1884 [Sereno 1998] Ref: J.A. Whitlock, 2011: 884 (fig. 7).
Diplodocidae (Family) Marsh, 1884 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 146.

Historical positions

Neosauropoda (Clade) Bonaparte 1986 [Wilson & Sereno 1998] Ref: B.J. González Riga et al., 2018: 173 (fig. 27). [rough position]
Diplodocoidea (Clade) Upchurch 1995 [Wilson & Sereno 1998] Ref: B.B. Britt et al., 2017: 234 (fig. 35).
Diplodocidae (Clade) Marsh 1884 [Sereno 1998] Ref: J.A. Whitlock, 2011: 884 (fig. 7).
Diplodocidae (Clade) Marsh 1884 [Sereno 1998] Ref: P. Upchurch et al., 2004: table 13.1 (p. [264]), 297 (fig. 13.18).
Diplodocidae (Family) Marsh, 1884 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 146.
Sauropodomorpha (Suborder) Huene, 1932 Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Dicraeosauridae (Family) Janensch, 1929 Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1971): 596.

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 †4s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 †4s
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