Sauropodomorpha

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Sauropodomorpha Fossil range: Triassic - Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Superorder: Dinosauria† Order: Saurischia† Suborder: Sauropodomorpha† von Huene, 1932
Infraorders
Prosauropoda† Sauropoda†

Sauropodomorpha von Huene, 1932 sensu Gauthier, 1986

The common ancestor of taxa closer to Saltasaurus than to Neornithes and all its descendants. Autapomorphies of Sauropodomorpha include:

a)Pollex robust with an enlarged ungual

b)Hallux ungual enlarged

c)Teeth lanceolate

d)Ten or more moderately elongate cervicals

e)Hindlimb is equal to or shorter than length of trunk

f)Tibia shorter than femur

g)Ascending process of the astragalus articulates with the descending process of the tibia

JGK