Saltasaurini
tribe · Salgado and Bonaparte 2007 · accepted · extinct
4 descendant taxa · 19 fossil sites · 9 formations · 3 countries
Lived when
Cretaceous – Paleogene
100.5–66 million years ago
Found where
3 countries
9 rock formations
Fossil record
19 sites
30 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 35 million years, from 100.5 to 66 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 66 million years old — that is roughly 220 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Saltasaurini was named in 2007 (Salgado and Bonaparte 2007) — 19 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 3 countries and 9 named rock formations.
- 30 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 4 named taxa, including 2 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).