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 | |
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 |
Genera | |
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.