Extinct clade of dinosaurs
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 .[ 4]
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.
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