†unranked clade Diplodocidae Marsh 1884 (diplodocid)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Diplodocidae

Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1884. Principal characters of American Jurassic dinosaurs. Part VII. Diplodocidae, a new family of the Sauropoda. American Journal of Science 27:161-167

Parent taxon: Flagellicaudata according to P. D. Mannion et al. 2019

See also ApesteguĂ­a 2005, Arldt 1909, Bakker 1986, Benton 1990, Bonaparte 1978, Bonaparte 1980, Bonaparte 1986, Bonaparte 1999, Calvo and Salgado 1995, Carroll 1988, Chure et al. 2006, Dollo 1884, Dollo 1889, Dong 1998, Gallina and ApesteguĂ­a 2005, Gallina et al. 2014, Galton 1977, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Huene 1908, Huene 1908, Huene 1909, Huene 1914, Huene 1927, Huene 1927, Huene 1948, Huene 1959, Hunt et al. 1995, Ibiricu et al. 2012, Jaekel 1911, Jaekel 1914, Joubert 1908, Kuhn 1946, Kuhn 1966, Lapparent 1947, Lull 1924, Madsen and Miller 1979, Mansel-Pleydell 1902, Marsh 1884, Marsh 1884, Marsh 1885, Marsh 1895, Marsh 1896, Marsh 1898, Matthew 1915, McIntosh 1981, McIntosh 1990, McIntosh 1997, Nopcsa 1901, Nopcsa 1923, Nopcsa 1928, Rauhut et al. 2005, Remes 2006, Remes 2007, Remes 2009, Roxo 1937, Royo-Torres et al. 2007, Russell 1984, Salgado 1999, Salgado et al. 2006, Salgado et al. 1997, Sereno 1997, Sereno 1998, Sereno 1999, Sereno et al. 1999, Suteethorn et al. 2010, Taylor and Naish 2005, Tornier 1913, Tschopp and Mateus 2013, Tschopp et al. 2015, Upchurch 1995, Upchurch 1995, Upchurch 1997, Upchurch et al. 2004, Vetter 1884, von Zittel 1911, Whitlock 2011, Wilson 2002, Wilson and Allain 2015, Wilson and Sereno 1994, Wilson and Sereno 1998, Wilson and Smith 1996, Winkler 1893, Young 1958 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Dicraeosauridae, Diplodocus lacustris

Subtaxa: Apatosaurinae Dicraeosaurinae Diplodocinae

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Argentina (3 collections), South Africa (2), Spain (1)

• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Chile (1), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Portugal (9), Spain (2), Tanzania (19), United States (164: Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming), Zimbabwe (1)

Total: 205 collections including 264 occurrences

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