Sauropoda

Sauropods
Temporal range:
Late Triassic–Late Cretaceous, 210–66 Ma
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Moontit skelet o Apatosaurus louisae, Carnegie Museum
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Anchisauria
Clade: Sauropoda
Marsh, 1878
Subgroups[1]
  • Antetonitrus
  • Archaeodontosaurus
  • Blikanasaurus
  • Camelotia
  • Chinshakiangosaurus
  • Gongxianosaurus
  • Isanosaurus
  • Kotasaurus
  • Lessemsaurus
  • Ohmdenosaurus
  • Protognathosaurus
  • Spinophorosaurus
  • Zizhongosaurus
  • Gravisauria
Synonyms

†Opisthocoelia Owen, 1860
†Cetiosauria Seeley, 1870

Sauropoda /sɔːˈrɒpdə/, or the sauropods /ˈsɔːrəpɒd/ (sauro- + -pod, "lizard-fitit"), are an infraorder o saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaurs.

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