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Somphospondyli is an
extinct clade of
titanosauriform sauropods that
lived from the Late Jur****ic
until the end of the Late Cretaceous,
comprising all...
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group survived to the
Early Cretaceous. Conversely,
rebbachisaurids and
somphospondyls saw the
opportunity to
diversify in the Cretaceous.
Turiasaurs also...
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turiasaurs such as Moabosaurus,
brachiosaurids such as Cedarosaurus, and
somphospondyls such as Astrophocaudia. The
North American sauropod hiatus began during...
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polytomy with
Andesaurus and
other basal titanosaurs and near-titanosaur
somphospondyls,
supporting the
original description's ****ertion of
phylogenetic proximity...
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possession of only five
sacral vertebrae distinguishes it from all
other somphospondyls, as
possession of six is a
synapomorphy of the clade. It was
noted that...
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Phuwiangosaurus exhibits characteristics intermediate between those of
basal somphospondyls and titanosaurs. The neck of
Phuwiangosaurus was
probably composed of...
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majority rule tree,
Brontomerus was
initially placed as a
basal somphospondyl within Titanosauriformes, in a
trichotomy with
Euhelopus and the Titanosauria...
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uncertainty regarding the
membership of Euhelopodidae. Most
studies favor the
somphospondyl hypothesis for Euhelopus, but the lack of
research on the
anatomy of...
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Cretaceous (probably Barremian) Ilek
Formation Russia A non-titanosaurian
somphospondyl sauropod.
Genus includes new
species S. astrosacralis.
Thanos Gen. et...
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which featured a
character by the name of Mzee Buheti. In 2007, a
somphospondyl sauropod discovered during the
initial 1909
expedition was
named Australodocus...
