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Sauropodomorphagroup is extinct

Long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs

Classification follows Sereno 1999.
Containing group: Dinosauria

Other Names for Sauropodomorpha

References

Chiappe, L. M., R. A. Coria, L. Dingus, F. Jackson, A. Chinsamy, and M. Fox. 1998. Sauropod dinosaur embryos from the late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 396:258-261.

Sereno, P. C. 1999. The evolution of dinosaurs. Science 284:2137-2147.

Sereno, P. C., A. L. Beck, D. B. Dutheil, H. C. Larsson, G. H. Lyon, B. Moussa, R. W. Sadleir, C. A. Sidor, D. J. Varricchio, G. P. Wilson, and J. A. Wilson. 1999. Cretaceous sauropods from the Sahara and the uneven rate of skeletal evolution among dinosaurs. Science 286:1342-1347.

Stevens, K. A. and J. M. Parrish. 1999. Neck posture and feeding habits of two Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs. Science 284:798-800.

Upchurch, P. 1995. The evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 349:365-390.

Upchurch, P. 1998. The phylogenetic relationships of sauropod dinosaurs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 124:43-103.

Wilson, J. A. 2002. Sauropod dinosaur phylogeny: critique and cladistic analysis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136:217-276.

Wilson, J. A. and M. T. Carrano. 1999. Titanosaurs and the origin of "wide-gauge" trackways: a biomechanical and systematic perspective on sauropod locomotion. Paleobiology 25:252-267.

Wilson, J. A. and P. C. Sereno. 1998. Early evolution and higher-level phylogeny of sauropod dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Supplement 18: 1-68.

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