Saltasaurinae

Saltasaurinae is a subfamily of titanosaurian sauropods known from the late Cretaceous period of South America, India and Madagascar.

Saltasaurinae

LadyofHats Altered by Steveoc 86 and FunkMonk · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
saltasaurinePBDB
Sits inside
SaltasauridaePBDB
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 68 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 68 of 68 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 68 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 7 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 9 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 9 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 9 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 9 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

68 occurrences of Saltasaurinae 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

68 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

18 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°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°WAnacleto — 38.84°S, 68.04°WAnacleto — 37.87°S, 67.83°WAnacleto — 38.82°S, 68.07°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 — 20.99°S, 49.26°WLecho — 26.07°S, 65.37°WBlack 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°WRío Playas — 4.17°S, 79.67°WAngostura Colorada — 41.26°S, 69.41°WJavelina — 29.00°N, 103.82°WHall Lake — 33.13°N, 107.19°W

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The named rock units Saltasaurinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saltasaurinae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

129 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Saltasaurinae, 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

37 references

Each of the 68 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. 25 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 Saltasaurinae

Credit
LadyofHats Altered by Steveoc 86 and FunkMonk
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Saltasaurinae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Powell 1992)