Lirainosaurinae

{{Automatic taxobox

|name=Lirainosaurines

|fossil_range = Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian, {{fossilrange|74|66}}

|image = Ampelosaurus mount 4.JPG

|image_caption = Skeletal mount of Ampelosaurus atacis

|display_parents = 2

|taxon = Lirainosaurinae

|authority = Díez Díaz et al. 2018

|subdivision_ranks = Genera

|subdivision_ref = {{Cite journal|last1=Díez Díaz|first1=Verónica|last2=Garcia|first2=Géraldine|last3=Pereda Suberbiola|first3=Xabier|last4=Jentgen-Ceschino|first4=Benjamin|last5=Stein|first5=Koen|last6=Godefroit|first6=Pascal|last7=Valentin|first7=Xavier|date=2021|title=A new titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Velaux-La-Bastide Neuve (southern France)|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2020.1841184|journal=Historical Biology|language=en|volume=33|issue=11|pages=2998–3017|doi=10.1080/08912963.2020.1841184|bibcode=2021HBio...33.2998D |issn=0891-2963|url-access=subscription}}

|subdivision =

{{extinct}}Ampelosaurus
{{extinct}}Atsinganosaurus
{{extinct}}Garrigatitan
{{extinct}}Lirainosaurus
{{extinct}}Lohuecotitan
{{extinct}}Paludititan?{{cite journal |last1= Díez Díaz |first1=Verónica |last2=Mannion |first2=Philip D. |last3=Csiki-Sava |first3=Zoltán |last4=Upchurch |first4=Paul |title=Revision of Romanian sauropod dinosaurs reveals high titanosaur diversity and body-size disparity on the latest Cretaceous Haţeg Island, with implications for titanosaurian biogeography |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |date=20 February 2025 |volume=23 |issue=1 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2024.2441516|doi-access=free |bibcode=2025JSPal..2341516D }}

}}

Lirainosaurinae is a subfamily of lithostrotian titanosaur sauropods from the Late Cretaceous of France, Spain, and Romania.

Systematics

Lirainosaurinae was defined by Díez Díaz et al. (2018) as comprising "Lirainosaurus, Ampelosaurus, their common ancestor, and all of its descendants", and includes the two definitional taxa as well as Atsinganosaurus, Lohuecotitan, and Paludititan. The five genera are known from Europe and all within the timespan of the late Campanian (Lirainosaurus) to early Maastrichtian (Ampelosaurus and Atsinganosaurus). Lirainosaurinae was recovered by Diez et al. (2018) as phylogenetically intermediate between the clades traditionally considered Saltasauridae and a clade containing taxa normally found in Aeolosaurini and Lognkosauria.{{cite journal|last1=Díez Díaz|first1=V.|last2=Garcia|first2=G.|last3=Pereda-Suberbiola|first3=X.|last4=Jentgen-Ceschino|first4=B.|last5=Stein|first5=K.|last6=Godefroit|first6=P.|last7=Valentin|first7=X.|year=2018|title=The titanosaurian dinosaur Atsinganosaurus velauciensis (Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France: New material, phylogenetic affinities, and palaeobiogeographical implications|journal=Cretaceous Research|volume=91|pages=429–456|doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2018.06.015|bibcode=2018CrRes..91..429D }} Unpublished cladistic results by Mocho et al. (2019) recover Lohuecotitan and Paludititan as members of Lirainosaurinae, and place Lirainosaurinae as an early-diverging branch of Saltasauridae.Mocho P, Páramo A, Escaso F, Marcos-Fernández F, Vidal D, Ortega F. 2019. Titanosaurs from Lo Hueco (Campanian-Maastrichtian) reveal new information about the evolutionary history of European titanosaurs, pp. 111. In: The Palaeontological Association (ed.), 63rd Annual Meeting, 15th–21st December 2019, University of Valencia, Spain, Programme Abstracts, AGM papers