Opisthocoelicaudiinae
 | It has been suggested that this article be merged into Saltasauridae. (Discuss) Proposed since April 2024. |
| Opisthocoelicaudiines Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Opisthocoelicaudia skeleton restoration in Museum of Evolution of Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria |
| Clade: | †Titanosauria |
| Family: | †Saltasauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Opisthocoelicaudiinae McIntosh, 1990 |
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Opisthocoelicaudiinae is a
phalanges.[5]
It was suggested by Averianov and Lopatin in 2022 that Opisthocoelicaudia was not in fact closely related to Saltasaurus, and instead to Nemegtosaurus and Quaesitosaurus, which are both also Laurasian, as well as isolated teeth from the Turonian of Uzbekistan and the Santonian of Kazakhstan. Suggesting a more distant relationship to Saltasaurus, Averianiov and Lopatin suggested using the clade name Opisthocoelicaudiidae for the group, limiting Saltasauridae to Gondwanan taxa.[2]
Opisthocoelicaudiinae in a cladogram after Navarro et al., 2022:[6]
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References
- S2CID 246650381.
- ^ S2CID 248378228.
- ^ S2CID 134977876.
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- ISBN 0-253-34542-1. Retrieved April 6, 2010.
- S2CID 251875979.
