Massopoda

Massopoda is a clade of sauropodomorph dinosaurs which lived during the Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous epochs. It was named by paleontologist Adam M. Yates of the University of the Witwatersrand in 2007. Massopoda is a stem-based taxon, defined as all animals more closely related to Saltasaurus loricatus than to Plateosaurus engelhardti.^[5] Sauropodiformes is a more exclusive stem-based clade within Massopoda, defined as "the most inclusive clade containing Saltasaurus but not Massospondylus".^[1]

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Massopods Temporal range: Late Triassic - Late Cretaceous, 228–66 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Mounted skeleton of Lufengosaurus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:	†Plateosauria
Clade:	†Massopoda Yates, 2007
Subgroups[1]
†Chuxiongosaurus †Ignavusaurus[2] †Musankwa[3] †Sarahsaurus[2] †Tuebingosaurus †Massospondylidae †Riojasauridae †Sauropodiformes †Jingshanosaurus? †Lishulong[4] †Qianlong †Seitaad? †Xingxiulong †Yunnanosaurus? †Anchisauria

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The name Massopoda, from Latin massa 'lump'; from Ancient Greek πους (pous) 'foot', is also contraction of Massospondylidae and Sauropoda, two disparate taxa in the clade.