†family Saltasauridae Sereno 1998 (saltasaurid)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Saltasauridae

Full reference: P. C. Sereno. 1998. A rationale for phylogenetic definitions, with application to the higher-level taxonomy of Dinosauria. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 210(1):41-83

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

See also Carballido et al. 2022, D'Emic 2012, Gorscak et al. 2017, Malkani 2008, Royo-Torres et al. 2006, Sereno 1998, Upchurch et al. 2004, Wilson 2002, Wilson and Upchurch 2003, You et al. 2004 and Zaher et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Diamantinasauria, Isisaurus, Rapetosaurus, Tapuiasaurus

Subtaxa: Igai Nicksaurus Opisthocoelicaudiinae Qingxiusaurus Saltasaurinae Zhuchengtitan

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Type: Saltasaurus

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Argentina (18 collections), Brazil (4), China (2), Ecuador (1), Egypt (2), France (1), Mexico (1), Mongolia (1), Pakistan (1), United States (37: New Mexico, Texas, Utah), Uruguay (2)

Total: 70 collections including 75 occurrences

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