当波拿巴首次命名新蜥脚类时,他将其描述为包含侏罗纪中晚期的蜥脚下目的演化支。而新蜥脚类的确出现在侏罗纪时期,直到白垩纪晚期灭绝。新蜥脚类后来由Upchurch、Paul Sereno和Jeffrey A. Wilson进一步细化,他们发现了新蜥脚类的13个共有衍徵。[5]由于新蜥脚类属于蜥脚下目,它们也有着大型的体型、长颈和柱状腿。[6]
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