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Rebbachisaurid

Rebbachisaurids
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 130–93 Ma
Limaysaurus.jpg
Limaysaurus tessonei skeleton restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Neosauropoda
Superfamily: Diplodocoidea
Family: Rebbachisauridae
Bonaparte, 1997
Genera

Rebbachisauridae is a family of sauropod dinosaurs known from fragmentary fossil remains from the Cretaceous of South America, Africa, and Europe.

Sauropod specialist Jack McIntosh in 1990 included the first known genus, the giant North African sauropod Rebbachisaurus in the family Diplodocidae, subfamily Dicraeosaurinae, on the basis of skeletal details. With the discovery in subsequent years of a number of additional forms, it was realised that the rebbachisaurs constitute a distinct group of dinosaurs, and in 1997 the Argentine paleontologist José Bonaparte named the family Rebbachisauridae. Whitlock, 2011 defined two new subfamilies Nigersaurinae and Limaysaurinae within Rebbachisauridae. Cladogram of the Rebbachisauridae after Fanti et al., 2013, which is based on Carballido et al., 2012:

Amazonsaurus

Histriasaurus

Zapalasaurus

Comahuesaurus

Rayososaurus

Rebbachisaurus

Cathartesaura

Limaysaurus

Nigersaurus

Demandasaurus

Tataouinea

Cladogram after Fanti et al., 2015.


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