Appendix 1. Sauropod taxa used for comparison.

Taxon

Source

Titanosaurians

 

Aeolosaurus

Powell 1986, 1987a; Salgado and Coria 1993

Alamosaurus

Gilmore 1946; Lucas and Hunt 1989

Andesaurus

MUCPv 132; Calvo and Bonaparte 1991

Argentinosaurus

PVPH-1, cast; Bonaparte and Coria 1993

Epachthosaurus

MACN-CH 1317, cast; Powell 1986

Gondwanatitan

Kellner and Azevedo 1999

Isisaurus

Wilson and Upchurch 2002

Janenschia

SAM 8992; Janensch 1922, 1929a; Wild 1991

Macrurosaurus

Seeley 1876

Neuquensaurus

von Huene 1929; Powell 1986

Opisthocoelicaudia

Borsuk-Bialynicka 1977

Pellegrinisaurus

MPCA 1500; Powell 1986; Salgado 1996

Rapetosaurus

Curry Rogers and Forster 2001

Saltasaurus

PVL 4017; Bonaparte and Powell 1980; Powell 1986, 1992

Titanosaurus

 

von Huene 1929; von Huene and Matley 1933; Berman and Jain 1982; Powell 1986; Jain and Bandyopadyay 1997

cf. Titanosaurus sp. “DGM Series A, B, and C” from Brazil

Powell 1986, 1987a, 1987b

Titanosauridae indet. n. sp. A, B, and C from Brazil

Campos and Kellner 1999

Unnamed titanosaurian from Argentina

MACNv 204, cast; Salgado and Calvo 1993

Other sauropods

 

Amargasaurus

MACN-N 15, cast; Salgado and Calvo 1992

Antarctosaurus

MACN 6906, 6904; von Huene 1929; Powell 1986

Apatosaurus

CM 11162, cast; Riggs 1903; Gilmore 1936

Brachiosaurus

Riggs 1904; Janensch 1929a, 1935, 1950

Camarasaurus

BYU 9047; CM 11338, cast; McIntosh et al. 1996a, 1996b

Dicraeosaurus

Janensch 1929a, 1929b, 1935

Diplodocus

CM 3452, cast; Osborn 1899; Hatcher 1901; Holland 1906, 1924; McIntosh and Berman 1975

Haplocanthosaurus

Hatcher 1903, McIntosh and Williams 1988

Mamenchisaurus

Young 1958; Yang and Zhao 1972; Russell and Zheng 1993