Reptilia - Saurischia - Saltasauridae

Alternative combinations: Saltasaurus australis, Titanosaurus australis

Synonyms: Loricosaurus scutatus Huene 1927, Loricosaurus scutulatus Huene 1927

Full reference: 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

Belongs to Neuquensaurus according to V. Zurriaguz et al. 2017

See also Ameghino 1896, Ameghino 1897, Ameghino 1900, Apesteguía 2005, Apesteguía 2005, Apesteguía et al. 2021, Averianov and Sues 2017, Bertini et al. 1993, Bonaparte 1978, Bonaparte 1979, Bonaparte 1984, Bonaparte 1986, Bonaparte 1996, Bonaparte and Gasparini 1979, Bonaparte and Powell 1980, Buffetaut et al. 1990, Calvo and González Riga 2003, Candeiro and Harris 2012, Carpenter 2001, Casanovas et al. 1987, Coria and Salgado 2001, D'Emic et al. 2011, D'Emic and Wilson 2011, Das Gupta 1924, de Jesus Faria et al. 2015, Díez Díaz et al. 2013, Filippi et al. 2011, Filippi and Garrido 2008, García et al. 2015, Gasparini et al. 1996, González Riga and Ortiz David 2014, González Riga et al. 2009, Gorscak et al. 2017, Goso Aguilar and Perea 2004, Haughton 1928, Hoffet 1942, Huene 1927, Huene 1927, Huene 1929, Huene 1929, Huene 1931, Ibiricu et al. 2011, Kellner et al. 2005, Kellner et al. 2006, Kues et al. 1980, Kuhn 1939, Kuhn 1964, Lambert 1940, Lambert 1941, Lambert 1942, Lydekker 1893, Malkani 2003, Mannion and Otero 2012, McIntosh 1990, Molnar 1980, Molnar 2011, Molnar and Frey 1987, Molnar and Wiffen 2007, Mones 1972, Mones 1997, Mourier et al. 1986, Navarrete et al. 2011, Navarro et al. 2022, Nopcsa 1901, Novas 1997, Otero 2010, Otero and Reguero 2013, Páramo et al. 2020, Perea and Ubilla 1994, Poropat 2013, Powell 1992, Powell 2003, Rusconi 1933, Russell et al. 1976, Salgado 2003, Salgado et al. 2005, Salgado and Azpilicueta 2000, Salgado and Calvo 1993, Salgado et al. 1997, Salgado and Coria 2005, Salgado and Coria 2009, Salgado and García 2002, Serra 1945, Silva Junior et al. 2017, Soto et al. 2008, Steel 1970, Stromer 1932, Swinton 1947, Taquet 1977, Tomaselli et al. 2022, Upchurch et al. 2004, Vila et al. 2012, Wilson 2006, Wilson et al. 2019, Wilson and Upchurch 2003 and Zurriaguz and Powell 2015

Sister taxa: Neuquensaurus robustus, Microcoelus patagonicus

Type specimens:

• Neuquensaurus australis: MLP Ly 1-6 (= MLP 77-V-28-1), a set of postcrania. Its type locality is Sierra Roca, Río Neuquen, which is in a Santonian terrestrial sandstone in the Bajo de la Carpa Formation of Argentina.
• Loricosaurus scutatus: MLP.Cs.1210, 1213-1215, 1218-1221, 1226, 1228-1232, 1235, 1237, 1470-1477, 2006, 2010, an osteoderm. Its type locality is canal, Cinco Saltos [MLP], which is in a Campanian/Campanian fluvial sandstone in the Anacleto Formation of Argentina.

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.