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

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

See also Apesteguía 2005, Averianov and Sues 2017, Bonaparte 1984, Bonaparte 1984, Bonaparte 1996, Bonaparte and Powell 1980, Calvo and González Riga 2003, Campos et al. 2005, Canudo et al. 2010, Cerda and Powell 2010, Curry Rogers 2005, D'Emic and Wilson 2011, de Jesus Faria et al. 2015, Díez Díaz et al. 2011, Filippi 2015, Filippi et al. 2011, Filippi and Garrido 2008, Franco-Rosas et al. 2004, García et al. 2015, González Riga 2011, González Riga and Ortiz David 2014, González Riga et al. 2009, Gorscak et al. 2017, Ibiricu et al. 2011, Jacobs et al. 1996, Kellner et al. 2005, Kellner et al. 2006, Le Loeuff 1995, Le Loeuff et al. 1995, Malkani 2006, Malkani 2008, Malkani 2010, Malkani 2015, Malkani 2015, Mannion and Otero 2012, Marinho and Iori 2011, McIntosh 1990, Molnar 2011, Molnar and Wiffen 2007, Moro et al. 2020, Mourier et al. 1986, Navarrete et al. 2011, Navarro et al. 2022, Novas 1997, Olshevsky 1981, Otero 2010, Otero and Reguero 2013, Páramo et al. 2020, Powell 1992, Powell 2003, Prasad and Sahni 1999, Ren et al. 2021, Rigby et al. 2021, Salgado 2003, Salgado and Azpilicueta 2000, Salgado and Calvo 1997, Salgado and Coria 1993, Salgado et al. 1997, Salgado and Coria 2005, Salgado and Coria 2009, Santucci and Bertini 2006, Silva Junior et al. 2017, Soto et al. 2012, Taylor et al. 2011, Upchurch et al. 2004, Vila et al. 2012, Wilson et al. 2019, You et al. 2004 and Zurriaguz and Powell 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PVL 4017-92, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Estancia "El Brete" (PVL), which is in a Maastrichtian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Lecho Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

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

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.