Massopoda
Extinct clade of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
It has been suggested that this article be merged into Plateosauria. (Discuss) Proposed since April 2024. |
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Massopods | |
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Mounted skeleton of Lufengosaurus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Plateosauria |
Clade: | †Massopoda Yates, 2007 |
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The name Massopoda, from Latin massa 'lump'; from Ancient Greek πους (pous) 'foot', is also contraction of Massospondylidae and Sauropoda, two disparate taxa in the clade.