Pronunciation: SOH-ro-POD-uh-MOR-fuh
Author: von Huene
Year: 1932
Meaning: Lizard-feet forms (see etymology)
Locomotion: Bi and quadrupedal (two and/or four legs)
Synonyms: Pachypodosauria (Huene, 1914)
Brontosauria (Olshevsky, 1991)
[Sereno, 2005]Definition
The most inclusive clade containing Saltasaurus loricatus but not Passer domesticus and Triceratops horridus.
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Etymology
Sauropodomorpha is derived from the Greek "sauros" (lizard), "pod" (feet) and "morpha" (forms).
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References
• von Huene F (1932) "The fossil reptile order Saurischia, their
development and history". Monographs of Geological and Palaeontology, 1(4): 12361.
• Tidwell V and Carpenter K (2005) "Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs".
• Otero A, Krupandan E, Pol D, Chinsamy A and Choinier J (2015) "A new basal sauropodiform from South Africa and the phylogenetic relationships of basal sauropodomorphs". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 174(3): 589-634. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12247.
• Molina-Pérez R and Larramendi A (2020) "Dinosaur Facts and Figures: The Sauropods and Other Sauropodomorphs".
• Otero A, Carballido JL and Pol D (2022) "South American Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs: Record, Diversity and Evolution".
• Müller RT and Garcia MS (2020) "Rise of an empire: analyzing the high diversity of the earliest sauropodomorph dinosaurs through distinct hypotheses". Historical Biology, 32(10): 1334-1339. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2019.1587754.
• Pol D, Otero A, Apaldetti C and Martínez RN (2021) "Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs from South America: The origin and diversification of dinosaur dominated herbivorous faunas". Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 107: 103145. DOI :10.1016/j.jsames.2020.103145.
• Lefebvre R, Houssaye A, Mallison H, Cornette R and Allain R (2022) "A path to gigantism: Three-dimensional study of the sauropodomorph limb long bone shape variation in the context of the emergence of the sauropod bauplan". Journal of Anatomy, 241(2): 297-336. DOI: 10.1111/joa.13646
• Botha J, Choiniere JN and Benson RBJ (2022) "Rapid growth preceded gigantism in sauropodomorph evolution". Current Biology (advance online publication).
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• Otero A, Carballido JL and Pol D (2022) "South American Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs: Record, Diversity and Evolution".
