Apatosaurinae

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Apatosaurines
Temporal range: Late Jurassic, 157–146.8 Ma
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Skeleton
Skeleton of an apatosaurine (either Apatosaurus or Brontosaurus), American Museum of Natural History 460
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: †Sauropodomorpha
Clade: †Sauropoda
Superfamily: †Diplodocoidea
Family: †Diplodocidae
Subfamily: †Apatosaurinae
Janensch, 1929
Genera[1]
  • †Amphicoelias?
  • †Apatosaurus
  • †Atlantosaurus?
  • †Brontosaurus

Apatosaurinae is a subfamily of diplodocid sauropods that existed between 157 and 150 million years ago in North America. The group includes two genera for certain, Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus, and at least five species. Atlantosaurus and Amphicoelias might also belong to this group.[1]

Below is a cladogram of apatosaurinae interrelationships based on Tschopp et al., 2015.[1]

 Diplodocidae 
 

Amphicoelias altus

 
 
 

 Diplodocinae 

 
 Apatosaurinae 
 

Unnamed species

 
 
 
 

Apatosaurus ajax

 
 

Apatosaurus louisae

 
 
 
 

Brontosaurus excelsus

 
 
 

Brontosaurus yahnahpin

 
 

Brontosaurus parvus

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Tschopp, E.; Mateus, O. V.; Benson, R. B. J. (2015). "A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)". PeerJ. 3: e857. doi:10.7717/peerj.857. PMC 4393826. PMID 25870766.


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