Rebbachisauridae
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Rebbachisauridae is a family of sauropod dinosaurs known from fragmentary fossil remains from the Cretaceous of South America, Africa, North America, Europe and possibly Central Asia.
Wikidata facts
- Parent taxon
- Diplodocoidea
- Image
- Rebbachisaurus BW.jpg
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- Commons category
- Rebbachisauridae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Rebbachisauridae
- topic's main category
- Category:Rebbachisaurids
- start time
- 150000000-
- end time
- 93000000-0
- time period
- Early Cretaceous
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Rebbachisauridae is a family of sauropod dinosaurs known from fragmentary fossil remains from the Cretaceous of South America, Africa, North America, Europe and possibly Central Asia.
==Taxonomy== In 1990 sauropod specialist Jack McIntosh included the first known rebbachisaurid genus, the giant North African sauropod Rebbachisaurus, in the family Diplodocidae, subfamily Dicraeosaurinae, on the basis of skeletal details. With the discovery in subsequent years of a number of additional genera, it was realised that Rebbachisaurus and its relatives constituted a distinct group of dinosaurs. In 1997 the Argentine paleontologist José Bonaparte described the family Rebbachisauridae, and in 2011 Whitlock defined two new subfamilies within the group: Nigersaurinae and Limaysaurinae.
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