Abditosaurus Vila et al. 2022 (saltasaurid)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Saltasauridae

Full reference: B. Vila, A. Sellés, M. Moreno-Azanza, N. L. Razzolini, A. Gil-Delgado, J. I. Canudo, and A. Galobart. 2022. A titanosaurian sauropod with Gondwanan affinities in the latest Cretaceous of Europe. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6:288-296

Parent taxon: Saltasauridae according to P. Mocho et al. 2024

See also Gorscak et al. 2023 and Vila et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Igai, Nicksaurus, Opisthocoelicaudiinae, Qingxiusaurus, Qunkasaura, Saltasaurinae, Zhuchengtitan

Subtaxa: Abditosaurus kuehnei

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Type: Abditosaurus kuehnei

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Orcau-1 (Isona) (Cretaceous of Spain)

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