Saltasauridae

Saltasauridae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
saltasauridPBDB
Sits inside
LohuecosauriaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Sauropoda
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Sauropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Sauropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Sauropoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 81 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 81 of 81 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 81 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 3 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 8 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 10 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 10 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 10 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 10 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

81 occurrences of Saltasauridae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

81 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

24 formations

Ojo Alamo — 36.31°N, 108.03°WOjo Alamo — 36.34°N, 108.10°WOjo Alamo — 36.17°N, 107.80°WOjo Alamo — 36.27°N, 108.17°WAnacleto — 38.84°S, 68.04°WAnacleto — 37.87°S, 67.83°WAnacleto — 38.82°S, 68.07°WAnacleto — 37.88°S, 68.52°WAnacleto — 37.13°S, 69.33°WJavelina — 29.40°N, 103.20°WJavelina — 29.46°N, 103.14°WJavelina — 29.41°N, 103.30°WJavelina — 29.58°N, 103.08°WJavelina — 29.46°N, 103.16°WAllen — 40.06°S, 66.80°WAllen — 39.30°S, 67.53°WAllen — 38.82°S, 68.07°WAllen — 39.47°S, 67.33°WAllen — 39.51°S, 67.38°WNorth Horn — 39.20°N, 111.24°WNorth Horn — 39.17°N, 111.27°WNorth Horn — 39.05°N, 111.27°WKirtland — 36.31°N, 108.05°WKirtland — 36.34°N, 108.08°WKirtland — 35.69°N, 106.87°WKirtland — 36.51°N, 108.32°WBajo de la Carpa — 38.95°S, 68.23°WBajo de la Carpa — 39.73°S, 68.52°WSão José do Rio Preto — 20.98°S, 49.24°WSão José do Rio Preto — 20.99°S, 49.26°WConques — 42.16°N, 0.97°ELecho — 26.07°S, 65.37°WQuseir — 24.59°N, 30.60°EQuseir — 25.35°N, 30.57°ENemegt — 43.60°N, 100.46°EBlack Peaks — 29.40°N, 103.20°WMcRae — 33.15°N, 107.19°WAsencio — 33.87°S, 57.49°WAdamantina — 25.73°S, 48.58°W? — 40.45°S, 66.62°WHongtuya — 37.47°N, 120.98°ERío Playas — 4.17°S, 79.67°WAngostura Colorada — 41.26°S, 69.41°WVitakri — 29.68°N, 69.39°EJavelina — 29.00°N, 103.82°WHall Lake — 33.13°N, 107.19°WVillalba de la Sierra — 39.95°N, 2.02°W

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The named rock units Saltasauridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saltasauridae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Saltasauridae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

182 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Saltasauridae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

49 references

Each of the 81 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 37 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Saltasauridae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Saltasauridae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLohuecosauria through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sereno 1998)