Saltasaurus Bonaparte and Powell 1980 (saltasaurine)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Saltasauridae

Full reference: 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

Parent taxon: Saltasaurini according to B. A. Navarro et al. 2022

See also Bonaparte 1984, Bonaparte 1984, Bonaparte 1996, Bonaparte 1999, Bonaparte and Powell 1980, Calvo and González Riga 2003, Calvo et al. 2007, Calvo et al. 2007, Carroll 1988, Chatterjee and Rudra 1996, Curry Rogers 2005, D'Emic 2012, D'Emic and Wilson 2011, Filippi et al. 2011, Franco-Rosas et al. 2004, González Riga 2011, González Riga and Ortiz David 2014, González Riga et al. 2009, Gorscak et al. 2017, Jacobs et al. 1996, Ksepka and Norell 2010, Le Loeuff et al. 1995, Mannion et al. 2013, McIntosh 1990, McIntosh 1990, McIntosh 1997, Mocho et al. 2014, Molnar 1980, Navarrete et al. 2011, Otero 2010, Páramo et al. 2020, Poropat et al. 2016, Powell 1992, Powell 2003, Prasad and Sahni 1999, Royo-Torres et al. 2006, Salgado 1993, Salgado 2003, Salgado and Azpilicueta 2000, Salgado and Calvo 1997, Salgado et al. 1997, Salgado and Coria 2005, Sekiya 2011, Sereno 1998, Smith et al. 2001, Suteethorn et al. 2010, Upchurch 1995, Upchurch 1995, Upchurch 1997, Upchurch et al. 2004, Wilson 2002, Wilson 2006, Wilson and Mohabey 2006, Wilson and Sereno 1998, Wilson and Upchurch 2003, Xing et al. 2015, You et al. 2004, Zaher et al. 2011 and Zurriaguz et al. 2017

Sister taxon: Neuquensaurus

Subtaxa: Saltasaurus loricatus

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Estancia "El Brete" (PVL) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

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