Bonatitan Martinelli and Forasiepi 2004 (saltasaurine)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Saltasauridae

Full reference: A. G. Martinelli and A. M. Forasiepi. 2004. Late Cretaceous vertebrates from Bajo de Santa Rosa (Allen Formation), Río Negro province, Argentina, with the description of a new sauropod dinosaur (Titanosauridae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 6(2):257-305

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

See also D'Emic and Wilson 2011, Filippi et al. 2011, González Riga 2011, Martinelli and Forasiepi 2004, Otero 2010 and Páramo et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Alamosaurus, Ibirania, Rocasaurus, Saltasaurini, Yamanasaurus

Subtaxa: Bonatitan reigi

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Bajo de Santa Rosa locality (MACN) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

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