Strict consensus of three MPTs obtained from implied weighting (k=12). Down-weighting the homoplasies places Tuebingosaurus as having a common ancestor with the lineage that leads to Sauropoda and earlier than Schleitheimia. Numbers correspond to 1) Plateosauridae, 2) Massopoda, 3) Massospondylidae, 4) Sauropodiformes, 5) Lessemsauridae, 6) Eusauropoda. The ages of Plateosaurus and Tuebingosaurus are restricted to the Obere Mühle outcrop, which has been assigned to the Sevatian, an informal unit used in the stratigraphy of the Late Triassic in Central Europe, from 211 to 203.6 Mya (Olsen et al. 2011). The base of Massopoda is not clear in the topologies (see discussion in the text), but Tuebingosaurus is placed at this level with several other Early Jurassic sauropodomorphs and Mussaurus from the Late Triassic. This suggests that a very rapid diversification event occurred in the Carnian, and the groups that originated during this time experienced further diversifications during the Norian.