page_title: Austroposeidon
section_title: Classification
hierarchical_section_title: Austroposeidon / Classification
caption_attribution_description: Cervical vertebra (Cv 13) of Austroposeidon magnificus gen. et sp. nov. (A) In left lateral, (B) right lateral, (C) dorsal and (D) ventral views. Abbreviations: cpol, centropostzygapophyseal lamina; mec, medial crest; pcdl, posterior centrodiapophyseal; podl, postzygodiapophyseal lamina; ppdl, paradiapophyseal lamina; spol, spinopostzygapophyseal lamina. Scale bar: 100mm.
context_page_description: Austroposeidon is an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Presidente Prudente Formation of Brazil. It contains one species, Austroposeidon magnificus.
context_section_description: A phylogenetic analysis in 2016 recovered Austroposeidon as the sister taxon of the Lognkosauria. An updated version was published by Silva et al. (2019), where the only significant changes from the original, based on a redescription of Uberabatitan, was the movement of Uberabatitan and Brasilotitan from Saltasaurinae to Aeolosaurini.
caption: Thirteenth neck vertebra
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