Sauropodomorph

Sauropodomorpha is the suborder of dinosaurs with massive, quadrupedal herbivores with extremely long necks and tails.

Sauropodomorph Temporal range: Upper Triassic – Upper Cretaceous
Statue of Diplodocus carnegiei outside the Carnegie Museum
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Sauropodomorpha von Huene, 1932
Infraorders
Prosauropoda Sauropoda

Sauropodomorpha are divided into prosauropods and sauropods. Among the sauropods were the largest land animals ever known: Seismosaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus (popularly known as Brontosaurus), and others.

Description

Only the modern blue whale is larger than these creatures; no land animal comes close. Argentinosaurus, with a vertebra over 1.59 metres long, is the largest.^[1]

• See Sauropod for the full account.

Taxonomy

• Suborder Sauropodomorpha
  • Panphagia
  • Saturnalia?
  • Thecodontosaurus
  • Infraorder Prosauropoda
    • Family Massospondylidae
    • Family Plateosauridae
    • Family Riojasauridae
  • Infraorder Sauropoda
    • Family Vulcanodontidae
    • Family Omeisauridae
    • Division Neosauropoda
    • Family Cetiosauridae
    • Family Diplodocidae
      • Subdivision Macronaria
    • Family Camarasauridae
    • Infradivision Titanosauriformes
    • Family Brachiosauridae
      • Cohort Somphospondyli
    • Family Euhelopodidae
    • Family Titanosauridae