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Nigersaurus
Taxonomy
Nigersaurus was named by Sereno et al. (1999). Its type is Nigersaurus taqueti.
It was assigned to Diplodocoidea by Xing et al. (2015); to Rebbachisaurinae by Fanti et al. (2015), Wilson and Allain (2015); to Rebbachisauridae by Sereno et al. (1999), Wilson (2002), Gallina et al. (2002), Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. (2003), Upchurch et al. (2004), Harris and Dodson (2004), Salgado and Coria (2005), Dalla Vecchia (2005), Gallina and Apesteguía (2005), Sereno and Wilson (2005), Salgado et al. (2006), Remes (2006), Apesteguía (2007), Mannion (2009), Suteethorn et al. (2010), Carballido et al. (2010), Ksepka and Norell (2010), Ibiricu et al. (2012), Díez Díaz et al. (2012), Salisbury et al. (2016), Dieudonné et al. (2016), Paulina-Carabajal and Calvo (2021); and to Nigersaurinae by Whitlock (2011), Mannion et al. (2011), Carballido et al. (2012), Mannion et al. (2012), Torcida Fernández-Baldor and Canudo (2013), Ibiricu et al. (2015), Mannion et al. (2019), Lerzo et al. (2024).
It was assigned to Diplodocoidea by Xing et al. (2015); to Rebbachisaurinae by Fanti et al. (2015), Wilson and Allain (2015); to Rebbachisauridae by Sereno et al. (1999), Wilson (2002), Gallina et al. (2002), Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. (2003), Upchurch et al. (2004), Harris and Dodson (2004), Salgado and Coria (2005), Dalla Vecchia (2005), Gallina and Apesteguía (2005), Sereno and Wilson (2005), Salgado et al. (2006), Remes (2006), Apesteguía (2007), Mannion (2009), Suteethorn et al. (2010), Carballido et al. (2010), Ksepka and Norell (2010), Ibiricu et al. (2012), Díez Díaz et al. (2012), Salisbury et al. (2016), Dieudonné et al. (2016), Paulina-Carabajal and Calvo (2021); and to Nigersaurinae by Whitlock (2011), Mannion et al. (2011), Carballido et al. (2012), Mannion et al. (2012), Torcida Fernández-Baldor and Canudo (2013), Ibiricu et al. (2015), Mannion et al. (2019), Lerzo et al. (2024).
Species
N. taqueti (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1999 | Nigersaurus Sereno et al. p. 1346 fig. 2 |
| 2002 | Nigersaurus Gallina et al. p. 10R |
| 2002 | Nigersaurus Wilson p. 240 fig. 13 |
| 2003 | Nigersaurus Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. p. 209 |
| 2004 | Nigersaurus Harris and Dodson p. 207 fig. 4 |
| 2004 | Nigersaurus Upchurch et al. p. 263 |
| 2005 | Nigersaurus Dalla Vecchia p. 411 |
| 2005 | Nigersaurus Gallina and Apesteguía p. 159 fig. 5 |
| 2005 | Nigersaurus Salgado and Coria p. 447 |
| 2005 | Nigersaurus Sereno and Wilson p. 157 |
| 2006 | Nigersaurus Remes p. 664 fig. 9 |
| 2006 | Nigersaurus Salgado et al. p. 704 fig. 9 |
| 2007 | Nigersaurus Apesteguía p. 536 |
| 2009 | Nigersaurus Mannion p. 522 |
| 2010 | Nigersaurus Carballido et al. pp. 498-499 fig. 5 |
| 2010 | Nigersaurus Ksepka and Norell |
| 2010 | Nigersaurus Suteethorn et al. |
| 2011 | Nigersaurus Mannion et al. p. 778 |
| 2011 | Nigersaurus Whitlock |
| 2012 | Nigersaurus Carballido et al. |
| 2012 | Nigersaurus Díez Díaz et al. p. 267 |
| 2012 | Nigersaurus Ibiricu et al. p. 220 |
| 2012 | Nigersaurus Mannion et al. |
| 2013 | Nigersaurus Torcida Fernández-Baldor and Canudo p. 31 |
| 2015 | Nigersaurus Fanti et al. |
| 2015 | Nigersaurus Ibiricu et al. p. 440 fig. 10 |
| 2015 | Nigersaurus Wilson and Allain p. 25 fig. 16 |
| 2015 | Nigersaurus Xing et al. |
| 2016 | Nigersaurus Dieudonné et al. p. 33 |
| 2016 | Nigersaurus Salisbury et al. p. 125 |
| 2019 | Nigersaurus Mannion et al. |
| 2021 | Nigersaurus Paulina-Carabajal and Calvo p. 2 |
| 2024 | Nigersaurus Lerzo et al. |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: infrao = infraorder | |||||
| Reference: Marsh 1875 | |||||