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Taxon
Taxon
Camarasauridae
Nominal Author
Cope 1877
2nd Nominal Author
Taxon Status INACTIVE
Comments
Potential Synonomy
Morosauridae

Active Phylogenetic Definition
Active Definition
Shorthand
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Definition Status Unknown
Definition Type Unknown
Node-Stem Triplet Unknown
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Inactive Taxon Status
Rejection Criteria historically polyphyletic
no definition
redundant
Critique
No definition has been proposed. Currently this taxon is monogeneric and thus synonomous with the genus Camarasaurus. Upchurch (1998) includes the Spanish form Aragosaurus, but this is not established on cladistic analysis. Similarly, Upchurch et al. (2004) placed Haplocanthosaurus together with Camarasaurus in the family, but their cladogram (Fig. 13.18) does not show them as sister taxa.
 

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