Tribe
Valid Extinct

Saltasaurini

Salgado and Bonaparte 2007

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
19
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Saltasaurini
click to enlarge
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
?
1
Angostura Colorada
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