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Epachthosaurinae
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Nominal Author | Salgado 2003 |
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Taxon Status | INACTIVE |
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Definition Type | Unknown |
Node-Stem Triplet | Unknown |
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Critique | Salagado (2003) has proposed a stem-based definition for Epachthosaurinae based Epachthosaurus, a taxon which is usually shown as a singleton genus and species on most cladograms. Elsewhere Franco-Rosas et al. (2004) have proposed a stem-based definiton for a clade of titanosaurs involving Aeolosaurus and Gondwanatitan. Some of these, such as Epachthosaurinae and Andesauroidea, are family-group names and so can be combined only in certain ways. There has yet to be a phylogenetic analysis that joins one or more taxa with Epachthosaurus as a stable clade. For this last reason, Epachthosaurinae may be redundant and is regarded here as inactive for the time being. |
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Earliest Record | All titanosaurs closer to Epachthosaurus than to Saltasaurus. |
Latest Record | Salgado 2003:20 |
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