PaleoDB taxon number: 38656
Alternative spelling: Baraposaurus
Full reference: S. L. Jain, T. S. Kutty, T. Roy-Chowdhury and S. Chatterjee. 1975. The sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Kota Formation of India. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 188:221-228
Parent taxon: Eusauropoda according to L. Xing et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Algoasaurus, Algoasaurus bauri, Bellusaurus, Bothriospondylus madagascariensis, Cardiodon, Cetiosauridae, Cetiosauriscus, Cetiosaurus, Datousaurus, Dystrophaeus, Ferganasaurus, Haestasaurus, Hudiesaurus, Janenschia, Jobaria, Klamelisaurus, Lapparentosaurus, Mamenchisauridae, Nebulasaurus, Neosauropoda, Ornithopsis leedsi, Patagosaurus, Rhoetosaurus, Shunosaurus, Spinophorosaurus, Turiasauria, Volkheimeria
Subtaxa: Barapasaurus tagorei
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore