| Nemegtosaurids Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Possible Early Cretaceous record
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| Cast of the skull of Nemegtosaurus, on a mounted Opisthocoelicaudia skeleton, Museum of Evolution of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria |
| Clade: | †Titanosauria |
| Clade: | †Eutitanosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Saltasauroidea |
| Family: | †Nemegtosauridae Upchurch, 1995 |
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Nemegtosauridae is a family of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs based on their diplodocid-like skulls.[1][2][3] Only three species are known:[4] Nemegtosaurus, Quaesitosaurus and possibly Tapuiasaurus, each from the Cretaceous.
- ^ Wilson, J.A. (13 September 2002). "Sauropod dinosaur phylogeny: critique and cladistic analysis" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 136 (2). The Linnean Society of London: 215–275. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00029.x.
- ^ McIntosh, J. S., 1990, "Sauropoda" in The Dinosauria, Edited by David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska. University of California Press, pp. 345–401.
- ^ Upchurch, P., Barrett, P.M. and Dodson, P. 2004. Sauropoda. In The Dinosauria, 2nd edition. D. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmólska (eds.). University of California Press, Berkeley. pp. 259–322.
- ^ Re: Family Nemegtosauridae