sentences:  Massospondylidae, which was first named by Huene in 1914, is a stem-based taxon.It was defined by Sereno as all animals more closely related to "Massospondylus carinatus" than to "Plateosaurus engelhardti" and "Saltasaurus loricatus".The following simplified cladogram is based on an analysis presented by Chappel and colleagues in 2019.