Tribe
Valid Extinct

Saltasaurini

Salgado and Bonaparte 2007

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
19
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Saltasaurini
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Saltasaurus (which means "lizard from Salta") was a sauropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous Period. Relatively small among sauropods, though still massive by human standards, it was characterized by a diplodocid-like head © LadyofHats Altered by Steveoc 86 and FunkMonk · Public domain · Wikimedia
PBDB
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Saurischia Unranked clade
Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
Massopoda Unranked clade
Sauropodiformes Unranked clade
Sauropoda Unranked clade
Gravisauria Unranked clade
Eusauropoda Unranked clade
Neosauropoda Unranked clade
Macronaria Unranked clade
Titanosauriformes Unranked clade
Somphospondyli Unranked clade
Titanosauria Unranked clade
Lithostrotia Unranked clade
Saltasauroidea Superfamily
Lohuecosauria Unranked clade
Saltasauridae Unranked clade
Saltasaurinae Subfamily
Saltasaurini Tribe
Fossil sites 19 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina
17
🇧🇷 Brazil
1
🇺🇾 Uruguay
1
Geological formations
Lecho
2
Allen
2
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1
Angostura Colorada
1
Río Colorado
1
Asencio
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
5
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
10
Santonian (85.7–83.6 Ma)
4
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
A. Otero and M. Reguero. 2013. Dinosaurs (Reptilia, Archosauria) at Museo de La Plata, Argentina: annotated catalogue of the type material and Antarctic specimens. Palaeontologia Electronica 16(1):3T:1-24 DOI ↗
Bibliography (13)
M. Aranciaga Rolando, J. A. Garcia Marsà, and F. L. Agnolín, M. J. Motta, S. Rozadilla, F. E. Novas. 2022. The sauropod record of Salitral Ojo del Agua: A Upper Cretaceous (Allen Formation) fossiliferous locality from northern Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 129:105029:1-25 DOI ↗
B. A. Navarro, A. M. Ghilardi, and V. Díez Díaz, K. L. N. Bandeira, A. G. S. Cattaruzzi, F. V. Iori, A. M. Martine, A. B. Carvalho, L. E. Anelli, M. A. Fernandes, H. Zaher. 2022. A new nanoid titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. Ameghiniana 59(5):317-354 DOI ↗
R. A. García and I. A. Cerda. 2016. Nuevos restos de Titanosauria (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) de la Formación Anacleto (Santoniano–Campaniano) de Cinco Saltos, provincia de Río Negro [New remains of Titanosauria (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Anacleto Formation (Santonian–Campanian) of Cinco Saltos, Río Negro province]. Reunión de Comunicaciones Asociación Paleontológica Argentina. Libro de Resúmenes. Ameghiniana 53(4 (suppl.)):21
M. D. D'Emic and J. A. Wilson. 2011. New remains attributable to the holotype of the sauropod dinosaur Neuquensaurus australis, with implications for saltasaurine systematics. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56(1):61-73 DOI ↗
A. Otero. 2010. The appendicular skeleton of Neuquensaurus, a Late Cretaceous saltasaurine sauropod from Patagonia, Argentina. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55(3):399-426 DOI ↗
J. E. Powell. 2003. Revision of South American titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston 111:1-173
L. Salgado and J. O. Calvo. 1999. Nuevos restos de Saltasaurinae (Sauropoda - Titanosauridae) en el Cretácico Superior de Río Negro [New remains of Saltasaurinae (Sauropoda - Titanosauridae) in the Upper Cretaceous of Río Negro]. XIV Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados, Neuquén y Plaza Huincul, 18 al 20 de mayo de 1998, Resúmenes. Ameghiniana 36(1):108
J. F. Bonaparte and J. E. Powell. 1980. A continental assemblage of tetrapods from the Upper Cretaceous beds of El Brete, northwestern Argentina (Sauropoda-Coelurosauria-Carnosauria-Aves). Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série 139:19-28
S. Mezzalira. 1966. Os fósseis do estado de São Paulo [The fossils of São Paulo state]. Boletim do Instituto Geográfico e Geológico 45:1–123
F. v. Huene. 1931. Verschiedene mesozoische Wirbeltierreste aus Südamerika [Different Mesozoic vertebrate remains from South America]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Abteilung A 66:181-198
F. v. Huene. 1929. Los sauriquios y ornitisquios del Cretáceo argentino. Anales del Museo de La Plata, serie 2 3:1-196
F. v. Huene. 1929. Terrestrische Oberkreide in Uruguay [The terrestrial Upper Cretaceous in Uruguay]. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie Abteilung B 1929:107-112
R. Lydekker. 1893. Contributions to a knowledge of the fossil vertebrates of Argentina. I. — The dinosaurs of Patagonia. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 2:1-16