Pronunciation: SAHL-tuh-SOR-uh-nay
Author: Bonaparte and Powell
Year: 1980
Meaning: Salta lizards
Locomotion: Quadrupedal (four leg drive)
Synonyms: None known
[Wilson and Upchurch, 2003]Definition
All Saltasaurids more closely related to Saltasaurus loricatus than to Opisthocoelicaudia skaryzinskii.
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Etymology
Saltasaurinae is derived from "salta" (for Salta province, where the type specimen was found), the Greek "sauros" (lizard), and the Latin "-inae" (sub family), named for the group anchor: Saltasaurus.
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References
• Bonaparte JF and Powell JE (1980) "A continental assemblage of tetrapods from the Upper Cretaceous beds of El Brete, northwestern Argentina (Sauropoda-Coelurosauria-Carnosauria-Aves)". Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Nouvelle Série, 139: 19-28.
• McIntosh JS (1990) "Sauropoda". Page 345-401 in Weishampel, Osmólska, and Dodson (eds.) "The Dinosauria: First Edition".
• Powell JE (1992) "Osteologia de Saltasaurus loricatus (Sauropoda - Titanosauridae) del Cretácico Superior del noroeste Argentino" [Osteology of Saltasaurus loricatus (Sauropoda - Titanosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of northwest Argentina]. In Sanz and Buscalioni (eds.) "Los Dinosaurios y Su Entorno Biotico: Actas del Segundo Curso de Paleontologia in Cuenca". Institutio "Juan de Valdes", Cuenca, Argentina: 165-230. (English translation by Nancie M. Ecker and Virginia Tidwell.)
• Coria RA and Chiappe LM (2007) "Embryonic Skin From Late Cretaceous Sauropods (Dinosauria) of Auca Mahuevo, Patgonia, Argentina". Journal of Paleontology, 81(6): 1528-1532. DOI: 10.1666/05-150.1.
• Curry-Rogers K and Wilson J (2006) "The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology".
• Novas FE (2009) "The Age of Dinosaurs in South America".
• Zurriaguz V and Powell JE (2015) "New contributions to the presacral osteology of Saltasaurus loricatus (Sauropoda, Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of northern Argentina". Cretaceous Research, 54. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2014.12.012.
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