Massospondylidae is a dinosaur family of the Infraorder Prosauropoda. The Massospondylidae were part of the suborder Sauropodomorpha, which were long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs. Massospondylidae may include Coloradisaurus, Glacialisaurus, Lufengosaurus, Massospondylus, Yunnanosaurus, and Jingshanosaurus; recent phylogenetic analyses have found a core of Coloradisaurus, Lufengosaurus and Massospondylus,[1] potentially with recently described Glacialisaurus.[2]
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Basal sauropodomorph phylogeny simplified after Yates, 2007.[1] In this review, the Massospondylidae consist of Massospondylus, Lufengosaurus and Coloradisaurus.
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- ^ a b Yates, Adam M. (2007), "The first complete skull of the Triassic dinosaur Melanorosaurus Haughton (Sauropodomorpha: Anchisauria)", in Barrett, Paul M.; Batten, David J., Special Papers in Palaeontology, 77, pp. 9–55, ISBN 9781405169332
- ^ Smith, Nathan D.; and Pol, Diego (2007). "Anatomy of a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Hanson Formation of Antarctica" (pdf). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52 (4): 657–674. http://www.app.pan.pl/acta52/app52-657.pdf.
