Rebbachisaurinae

Rebbachisaurinae is a subfamily within the family Rebbachisauridae, defined to include Rebbachisaurus garasbae and exclude Limaysaurus tessonei. It was first proposed as a rank by Jose Bonaparte in 1995, to include Rebbachisaurus.[1] Some phylogenies however, include Rebbachisaurus in a clade with Limaysaurus, and thus the subfamily was not used.[2] In 2015, a phylogenetic analysis was conducted, and it found Rebbachisaurus instead to be closer to Nigersaurus and related genera than Limaysaurus, and thus was used to replace Nigersaurinae as Rebbachisaurinae is the older term and is named after the genus used for the formation of the family Rebbachisauridae. The 2015 cladogram of Fanti et al. is shown below.[1]

Rebbachisauridae

Amazonsaurus

Zapalasaurus

Histriasaurus

Comahuesaurus

Khebbashia
Limaysaurinae

Cathartesaura

Limaysaurus

Rebbachisaurinae

Katepensaurus

Nigersaurus

Rebbachisaurus

Demandasaurus

Itapeuasaurus

Tataouinea

Rebbachisaurines
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 128–93 Ma
Reconstructed skeleton of Tataouinea based on Nigersaurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Family: Rebbachisauridae
Clade: Khebbashia
Subfamily: Rebbachisaurinae
Bonaparte, 1995
Genera[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Nigersaurinae Whitlock, 2011[2]

References

  1. Fanti, F.; Cau, A.; Cantelli, L.; Hassine, M.; Auditore, M. (2015). "New Information on Tataouinea hannibalis from the Early Cretaceous of Tunisia and Implications for the Tempo and Mode of Rebbachisaurid Sauropod Evolution". PLOS ONE. 10 (4): e123475. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123475. PMC 4414570. PMID 25923211.
  2. John A. Whitlock (2011). "A phylogenetic analysis of Diplodocoidea (Saurischia: Sauropoda)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (4): 872–915. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00665.x.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
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