macronarian

Grouping: Macronaria/late-surviving basal macronarian perhaps a Camarasaurid

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Grouping: Macronaria/late-surviving basal macronarian perhaps a Camarasaurid

Archive 2009-09-01 Nima 2009

I'd have thought by now that I'd immediately be able to recognise the difference between a diplodocoid scapula and a macronarian one.

Biggest…. sauropod…. ever (part…. I) Darren Naish 2007

Furthermore, phylogenetic analysis indicates that Turiasaurus belongs to a new clade located close to the origin of Neosauropoda (the macronarian-diplodocoid clade).

Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006

Often regarded as a brachiosaurid, its remains are not diagnostic, nor is there any reason to think that they belong to a brachiosaurid, nor even to a macronarian (Macronaria is the sauropod clade that includes brachiosaurids and titanosaurs).

Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006

Often regarded as a brachiosaurid, its remains are not diagnostic, nor is there any reason to think that they belong to a brachiosaurid, nor even to a macronarian (Macronaria is the sauropod clade that includes brachiosaurids and titanosaurs).

Obscure dinosaurs of the Kimmeridge Clay Darren Naish 2006

Furthermore, phylogenetic analysis indicates that Turiasaurus belongs to a new clade located close to the origin of Neosauropoda (the macronarian-diplodocoid clade).

Happy Christmas, from gigantic Spanish sauropods... or, alas, poor ‘Angloposeidon’ Darren Naish 2006

To their credit, Quick & Ruben (2009) do note that some birds (including kiwis, emus and the extinct elephant birds and mihirungs) have very small sterna that don't extend as far posteriorly as the abdominal air-sacs: these sterna are actually smaller, compared to trunk length, than those of such non-avian saurischians as dromaeosaurs and diplodocoid and macronarian sauropods (Wedel 2007).

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