Euhelopodidae

Euhelopodidae is a family of sauropod dinosaurs which includes the genus Euhelopus. All known euhelopodids lived in what is now East Asia.[1] The family name was first proposed by American paleontologist Alfred Sherwood Romer in 1956. The four genera Chiayusaurus, Omeisaurus, Tienshanosaurus, and Euhelopus were the original proposed euhelopodines (subfamily Euhelopodinae). Other genera such as Mamenchisaurus and Shunosaurus were formerly placed within this family, but these are now regarded as more basal sauropods.

Euhelopodids
Life restoration of a Euhelopus zdanskyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Clade: Somphospondyli
Family: Euhelopodidae
Romer, 1956
Type species
Euhelopus zdanskyi
Wiman, 1929
Genera

Michael D'Emic (2012) formulated the first phylogenetic definition of Euhelopodidae, defining it as the clade containing "neosauropods more closely related to Euhelopus zdanskyi than to Neuquensaurus australis". Below is a cladogram presenting the cladistic hypothesis of Euhelopodidae proposed by D'Emic.[2]

Euhelopodidae

Qiaowanlong

Erketu

Euhelopus

Daxiatitan

Tangvayosaurus

Phuwiangosaurus

References

  1. Saegusa, H.; Ikeda, T. (2014). "A new titanosauriform sauropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Hyogo, Japan". Zootaxa. 3848 (1): 1–66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3848.1.1. PMID 25112425.
  2. D'Emic, Michael D. (2012), "The early evolution of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs" (PDF), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 166 (3): 624–671, doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00853.x

Further reading

  • Romer, A. S. (1956), Osteology of the Reptiles, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 1–772.
  • Royo-Torres, R.; Cobos, A. & Alcala, L. (2006), "A Giant European Dinosaur and a New Sauropod Clade", Science, 314 (5807): 1925–1927, doi:10.1126/science.1132885, PMID 17185599.


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