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Massopoda

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Massopods Temporal range: Late Triassic - Late Cretaceous, 228–66 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Mounted skeleton of Lufengosaurus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:	†Plateosauria
Clade:	†Massopoda Yates, 2007
Subgroups^[3]
†Chuxiongosaurus †Ignavusaurus^[1] †Musankwa^[2] †Sarahsaurus^[1] †Tuebingosaurus †Riojasauridae †Massospondylidae †Sauropodiformes †Jingshanosaurus? †Qianlong †Seitaad? †Xingxiulong †Yunnanosaurus? †Anchisauria

Massopoda is a cladeofsauropodomorph dinosaurs which lived during the Late TriassictoLate Cretaceous epochs. It was named by paleontologist Adam M. Yates of the University of the Witwatersrandin2007. Massopoda is a stem-based taxon, defined as all animals more closely related to Saltasaurus loricatus than to Plateosaurus engelhardti.^[4]

The name Massopoda, from Latin massa 'lump'; from Ancient Greek πους (pous) 'foot', is also contraction of Massospondylidae and Sauropoda, two disparate taxa in the clade.

Classification[edit]

Yates assigned the Massopoda to Plateosauria. Within the clade, he assigned the families Massospondylidae (which includes the relatively well-known dinosaur Massospondylus) and Riojasauridae (which includes Riojasaurus) as well as the Sauropoda.^[5]

The following is a cladogram from an analysis presented by Oliver W. M. Rauhut and colleagues in 2020:^[6]

Massopoda

	Eucnemesaurus

	Riojasaurus

Sarahsaurus

Massospondylidae

Yunnanosaurus

	Jingshanosaurus

	Seitaad

Coloradisaurus

	Glacialisaurus

	Lufengosaurus

Massospondylus

	Adeopapposaurus

	Leyesaurus

Sauropodiformes

Xingxiulong

	Anchisaurus

	Leonerasaurus

	Antetonitrus

	Ingentia

	Tazoudasaurus

	Sauropoda

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Apaldetti, C.; Martinez, R. N.; Alcober, O. A.; Pol, D. (2011). Claessens, Leon (ed.). "A New Basal Sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina". PLOS ONE. 6 (11): e26964. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...626964A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026964. PMC 3212523. PMID 22096511.

^ Barrett, Paul M.; Chapelle, Kimberley E.J.; Sciscio, Lara; Broderick, Timothy J.; Zondo, Michel; Munyikwa, Darlington; Choiniere, Jonah N. "A new Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 69 (2): 227–241. doi:10.4202/app.01100.2023.

^ McPhee, B. W.; Yates, A. M.; Choiniere, J. N.; Abdala, F. (2014). "The complete anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Antetonitrus ingenipes (Sauropodiformes, Dinosauria): Implications for the origins of Sauropoda". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 171: 151–205. doi:10.1111/zoj.12127.

^ Yates, Adam M. (2007). "Solving a dinosaurian puzzle: the identity of Aliwalia rex Galton". Historical Biology. 19 (1): 93–123. Bibcode:2007HBio...19...93Y. doi:10.1080/08912960600866953. S2CID 85202575.

^ Yates, Adam M. (2007). Barrett, Paul M.; Batten, David J. (eds.). "The first complete skull of the Triassic dinosaur Melanorosaurus Haughton (Sauropodomorpha: Anchisauria)". Evolution and Palaeobiology. 77: 9–55. ISBN 978-1-4051-6933-2.