Savannasaurus elliottorum Poropat et al. 2016 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: S. F. Poropat, P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, S. A. Hocknull, B. P. Kear, M. Kundrát, T. R. Tischler, T. Sloan, G. H. K. Sinapius, J. A. Elliott, and D. A. Elliott. 2016. New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography. Scientific Reports 6:34467:1-12

Belongs to Savannasaurus according to T. G. Frauenfelder et al. 2021

See also Brougham et al. 2019, Poropat et al. 2016, Poropat et al. 2020, Poropat et al. 2023, Poropat et al. 2021 and Rigby et al. 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AODF 660, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Ho-Hum site, Belmont Station (AODL 82), which is in a Cenomanian/Turonian floodplain siltstone in the Winton Formation of Australia.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Ho-Hum site, Belmont Station (AODL 82)

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