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Ceratosauria[edit]

Ceratosaurs
Temporal range:
Sinemurian-Maastrichtian, 199.3–66 Ma
Skeletal reconstruction of Ceratosaurus nasicornis
Skeletal reconstruction of Carnotaurus sastrei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Neotheropoda
Clade: Averostra
Clade: Ceratosauria
Marsh, 1884
Subgroups

Tetanurae[edit]

Tetanurans
Temporal range:
Early JurassicPresent, 201–0 Ma
Skeleton of Monolophosaurus jiangi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Neotheropoda
Clade: Averostra
Clade: Tetanurae
Gauthier, 1986
Subgroups
Synonyms
  • Avipoda Novas, 1992
  • Avetheropoda?
  • Orionides?

Carnosauria[edit]

Carnosaurs
Temporal range:
Middle JurassicLate Cretaceous, 174–89 Ma Possible Late Toarcian and Late Maastrichtian records.
Replica of a Giganotosaurus carolinii skeleton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Avetheropoda
Clade: Carnosauria
von Huene, 1920
Subgroups

Carcharodontosauria[edit]

Carcharodontosaurians
Temporal range: 154–90 Ma Possible Campanian record
Reconstructed Carcharodontosaurus skull, Science Museum of Minnesota
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Allosauria
Clade: Carcharodontosauria
Stromer, 1931
Subgroups
Uncertain or possible members
Synonyms
  • Acrocanthosauridae Molnar, 2003

Avialae[edit]

Avialans
Temporal range: Middle JurassicPresent, 150.8–0 Ma Earliest 165 Ma if Anchiornithidae are members
Fossil specimen of Jeholornis prima
Collage of four extant birds. Clockwise from top-left: Spanish imperial eagle (Aquila adalberti), common ostrich (Struthio camelus), mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), and common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: Pennaraptora
Clade: Paraves
Clade: Avialae
Gauthier, 1986
Subgroups

Sauropodomorpha[edit]

Sauropodomorphs
Temporal range: 233.23–66 Ma
Plateosaurus mount on display in Trossingen
Apatosaurus mount at the Carnegie Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Eusaurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Huene, 1932
Subgroups

Sauropoda[edit]

Sauropods
Temporal range:
Late TriassicLate Cretaceous, 228–66 Ma
Mounted skeleton of Apatosaurus louisae, Carnegie Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Anchisauria
Clade: Sauropoda
Marsh, 1878
Subgroups
Synonyms
  • Opisthocoelia Owen, 1860
  • Cetiosauria Seeley, 1870
  • Diplodocia Tornier, 1913

Rebbachisauridae[edit]

Rebbachisaurids
Temporal range: Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous, 150–90 Ma
Limaysaurus tessonei skeleton restoration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Superfamily: Diplodocoidea
Clade: Diplodocimorpha
Family: Rebbachisauridae
Bonaparte, 1997
Subgroups

From Khebbashia[edit]

Khebbashia is a clade of herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs belonging to the Rebbachisauridae.[1] Members of Khebbashia were medium-sized sauropods from the early Cretaceous period of South America, Africa and Europe.

The name "Khebbashia" is derived from "Khebbash" or "Khebbache", a Moroccan tribe that inhabited the region where the first rebbachisaurid specimen was found in North Africa.[2]

Khebbashia is defined as the least inclusive clade including Limaysaurus tessonei, Nigersaurus taqueti, and Rebbachisaurus garasbae. It therefore includes the rebbachisaurid subfamilies Rebbachisaurinae and Limaysaurinae, to the exclusion of more basal forms.[2]

From Rebbachisaurinae[edit]

Rebbachisaurinae is a subfamily within the family Rebbachisauridae, defined to include Rebbachisaurus garasbae and exclude Limaysaurus tessonei. It was first proposed as a rank by Jose Bonaparte in 1995, to include Rebbachisaurus.[3] Some phylogenies however, include Rebbachisaurus in a clade with Limaysaurus, and thus the subfamily was not used.[4] In 2015, a phylogenetic analysis was conducted, and it found Rebbachisaurus instead to be closer to Nigersaurus and related genera than Limaysaurus, and thus was used to replace Nigersaurinae as Rebbachisaurinae is the older term and is named after the genus used for the formation of the family Rebbachisauridae. The 2015 cladogram of Fanti et al. is shown below.[3] [4]

  1. ^ P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, D. Schwarz and O. Wings. (2019). Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod dinosaur evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(3):784-909
  2. ^ a b Fanti, F.; Cau, A.; Cantelli, L.; Hassine, M.; Auditore, M. (2015). "New information on Tataouinea hannibalis from the Early Cretaceous of Tunisia and implications for the tempo and mode of rebbachisaurid sauropod evolution". PLOS ONE. 10 (4): e0123475. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1023475F. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123475. PMC 4414570. PMID 25923211.
  3. ^ a b Fanti, F.; Cau, A.; Cantelli, L.; Hassine, M.; Auditore, M. (2015). "New Information on Tataouinea hannibalis from the Early Cretaceous of Tunisia and Implications for the Tempo and Mode of Rebbachisaurid Sauropod Evolution". PLOS ONE. 10 (4): e123475. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1023475F. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123475. PMC 4414570. PMID 25923211.
  4. ^ a b John A. Whitlock (2011). "A phylogenetic analysis of Diplodocoidea (Saurischia: Sauropoda)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (4): 872–915. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00665.x.