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Barapasaurus

Reptilia

Taxonomy

Barapasaurus was named by Jain et al. (1975). Its type is Barapasaurus tagorei.

It was assigned to Sauropoda by Jain et al. (1975), Benton (1990), Yadagiri (1993), Upchurch (1995), Calvo and Salgado (1995); to Prosauropoda by Mohabey and Udhoji (1996); to Barapasauridae by Hunt et al. (1995), Dong (1998); to Vulcanodontidae by McIntosh (1990), McIntosh (1990), Upchurch (1995), Loyal et al. (1996), Mohabey (2001); to Cetiosauridae by Rozhdestvensky (1977), Molnar (1980), Bonaparte (1986), Bonaparte (1986), Carroll (1988), Bonaparte and Coria (1993), Bandyopadhyay (1999), Bonaparte (1999), Upchurch et al. (2004), Bandyopadhyay and Sengupta (2006); to Eusauropoda by Salgado et al. (1997), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Wilson and Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Sereno et al. (1999), Wilson (2002), Allain and Aquesbi (2008), Suteethorn et al. (2010), Ksepka and Norell (2010), Sekiya (2011), Otero and Pol (2013), Apaldetti et al. (2013), Mocho et al. (2014), Xing et al. (2015); to Gravisauria by Rauhut et al. (2020); and to Sauropoda by Bandyopadhyay et al. (2003), Upchurch et al. (2007), Bandyopadhyay et al. (2010), Khosla and Bajpai (2021).

Species

B. tagorei (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1975	Barapasaurus Jain et al.
1977	Barapasaurus Rozhdestvensky p. 113
1980	Barapasaurus Molnar p. 138
1986	Barapasaurus Bonaparte p. 250
1988	Barapasaurus Carroll
1990	Barapasaurus Benton p. 19
1990	Barapasaurus McIntosh p. 54
1993	Barapasaurus Bonaparte and Coria
1993	Barapasaurus Yadagiri p. 214
1995	Barapasaurus Calvo and Salgado p. 30 fig. 18
1995	Barapasaurus Hunt et al. p. 263
1995	Barapasaurus Upchurch p. 253
1996	Barapasaurus Loyal et al. p. 628
1996	Baraposaurus Mohabey and Udhoji p. 358
1997	Barapasaurus Salgado et al. p. 25 fig. 19
1997	Barapasaurus Sereno p. 442 fig. 4
1998	Barapasaurus Dong p. 83
1998	Barapasaurus Sereno p. 71 fig. 7
1998	Barapasaurus Wilson and Sereno p. 54 fig. 44
1999	Barapasaurus Bandyopadhyay p. 311
1999	Barapasaurus Bonaparte p. 138
1999	Barapasaurus Sereno p. 2138 fig. 2
1999	Barapasaurus Sereno et al. p. 1346 fig. 4
2001	Barapasaurus Mohabey p. 481
2002	Barapasaurus Wilson p. 240 fig. 13
2003	Barapasaurus Bandyopadhyay et al. p. 31A
2004	Barapasaurus Upchurch et al. p. 263
2006	Barapasaurus Bandyopadhyay and Sengupta p. 79
2007	Barapasaurus Upchurch et al. p. 62 fig. 3
2008	Barapasaurus Allain and Aquesbi p. 403
2010	Barapasaurus Bandyopadhyay et al. pp. 562-563 fig. 17
2010	Barapasaurus Ksepka and Norell
2010	Barapasaurus Suteethorn et al.
2011	Barapasaurus Sekiya
2013	Barapasaurus Apaldetti et al.
2013	Barapasaurus Otero and Pol
2014	Baraposaurus Mocho et al.
2015	Barapasaurus Xing et al.
2020	Barapasaurus Rauhut et al.
2021	Barapasaurus Khosla and Bajpai p. 195

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida

Rank	Name	Author
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Saurischia	()
—	Sauropoda	()
—	Gravisauria
genus	Barapasaurus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Barapasaurus Jain et al. 1975

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†Barapasaurus tagorei Jain et al. 1975

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteinfrao

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

10 to < 100infrao

Adult width:

10 to < 100infrao

Adult height:

10 to < 100infrao

Maximum body mass:

30000 kgg

Minimum body mass:

10000 kgg

Thickness:

thickinfrao

Architecture:

compact or denseinfrao

Form:

sphericalinfrao

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partsinfrao

Grouping:

gregariousinfrao

Environment:

terrestrialinfrao

Locomotion:

actively mobileinfrao

Life habit:

ground dwellinginfrao

Diet:

herbivoreinfrao

Reproduction:

oviparousinfrao

Dispersal:

direct/internalinfrao

Dispersal 2:

mobileinfrao

Created:

2005-08-24 13:34:58

Modified:

2005-08-24 15:34:58

Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder

References: Peczkis 1995, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Sinemurian to the top of the Pliensbachian or 199.50000 to 184.20000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Sinemurian - Pliensbachian	199.5 - 184.2	India (Maharashtra)	B. tagorei (35268)
Sinemurian - Pliensbachian	199.5 - 184.2	India (Andhra Pradesh)	B. tagorei (97447)