Biology:Massopoda
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Plateosauria |
| Clade: | †Massopoda Yates, 2007 |
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Massopoda is a clade of sauropodomorph dinosaurs which lived during the Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous epochs. It was named by paleontologist Adam M. Yates of the University of the Witwatersrand in 2007. Massopoda is a stem-based taxon, defined as all animals more closely related to Saltasaurus loricatus than to Plateosaurus engelhardti.[5]
The name Massopoda, from la massa 'lump'; from grc πους (pous) 'foot', is also contraction of Massospondylidae and Sauropoda, two disparate taxa in the clade.
Classification
Yates assigned the Massopoda to Plateosauria. Within the clade, he assigned the families Massospondylidae (which includes the relatively well-known dinosaur Massospondylus) and Riojasauridae (which includes Riojasaurus) as well as the Sauropoda.[6]
The following is a cladogram from an analysis presented by Oliver W. M. Rauhut and colleagues in 2020:[3]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Apaldetti, C.; Martinez, R. N.; Alcober, O. A.; Pol, D. (2011). Claessens, Leon. ed. "A New Basal Sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina". PLOS ONE 6 (11): e26964. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026964. PMID 22096511.
- ↑ Claire Peyre de Fabrègues; Ronan Allain (2020). "Kholumolumo ellenbergerorum, gen. et sp. nov., a new early sauropodomorph from the lower Elliot Formation (Upper Triassic) of Maphutseng, Lesotho". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39 (6): e1732996. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1732996.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Rauhut, O. W. M.; Holwerda, F. M.; Furrer, H. (2020). "A derived sauropodiform dinosaur and other sauropodomorph material from the Late Triassic of Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland". Swiss Journal of Geosciences 113 (1): 8. doi:10.1186/s00015-020-00360-8.
- ↑ McPhee, B. W.; Yates, A. M.; Choiniere, J. N.; Abdala, F. (2014). "The complete anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Antetonitrus ingenipes (Sauropodiformes, Dinosauria): Implications for the origins of Sauropoda". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 151–205. doi:10.1111/zoj.12127.
- ↑ Yates, Adam M. (2007). "Solving a dinosaurian puzzle: the identity of Aliwalia rex Galton". Historical Biology 19 (1): 93–123. doi:10.1080/08912960600866953.
- ↑ Yates, Adam M. (2007). "The first complete skull of the Triassic dinosaur Melanorosaurus Haughton (Sauropodomorpha: Anchisauria)". Evolution and Palaeobiology 77: 9–55. ISBN 978-1-4051-6933-2.
Wikidata ☰ Q3307233 entry
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