Biology:Saltasaurini

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Short description: Extinct tribe of reptiles

Saltasaurins
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Campanian–Maastrichtian
Neuquensaurus australis.jpg
Skeleton of Neuquensaurus australis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Clade: Macronaria
Clade: Titanosauria
Family: Saltasauridae
Subfamily: Saltasaurinae
Tribe: Saltasaurini
Salgado & Bonaparte 2007[1]
Genera[2]

Saltasaurini is a tribe of titanosaur sauropods known from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina . The clade was named in 2007 by Leonardo Salgado and José Bonaparte as the "least inclusive clade comprising Neuquensaurus and Saltasaurus", which is equivalent to the use of Saltasaurinae in Salgado et al. (1997). Found only in the Campanian to Maastrichtian sediments of the Neuquén Basin, Salgado & Bonaparte (2007) decided a more restrictive clade was needed because of the expansion of Saltasaurinae as defined to include far more taxa than it originally encompassed.[1] Saltasaurini includes the original core of Saltasaurinae: Neuquensaurus, Saltasaurus, Rocasaurus and Bonatitan,[2] although some studies exclude Bonatitan from the clade.[3]

Below is a cladogram by Villa et al. (2022), from the description of the new European saltasaurine Abditosaurus, collapsed to show the internal relationships of Saltasaurinae.[4]

Saltasaurinae

Maxakalisaurus

Paralititan

Abditosaurus

Saltasaurini

Neuquensaurus

Saltasaurus

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Salgado, L.; Bonaparte, J. (2007). "Sauropodomorpha". in Gasparini, Z.; Salgado, L.; Coria, R.A.. Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles. Indiana University Press. pp. 188–228. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Otero, A.; Reguero, M. (2013). "Dinosaurs (Reptilia, Archosauria) at Museo de La Plata, Argentina: annotated catalogue of the type material and Antarctic specimens". Palaeontologia Electronica 16 (1): 1–24. doi:10.26879/352. 
  3. Díez Díaz, V.; Garcia, G.; Pereda-Suberbiola, X.; Jentgen-Ceschino, B.; Stein, K.; Godefroit, P.; Valentin, X. (2018). "The titanosaurian dinosaur Atsinganosaurus velauciensis (Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France: New material, phylogenetic affinities, and palaeobiogeographical implications". Cretaceous Research 91: 429–456. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.06.015. 
  4. Villa, B.; Sellés, A.; Moreno-Azanza, M.; Razzolini, N.L.; Gil-Delgado, A.; Canudo, J.I.; Galobart, À (2022). "A titanosaurian sauropod with Gondwanan affinities in the latest Cretaceous of Europe". Nature Ecology & Evolution 92 (3): 288–296. doi:10.1038/s41559-021-01651-5. PMID 35132183. 

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