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Saltasaurus
Herbivore
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There is no write-up for this dinosaur yet, but the scientific data below is complete.
Who lived alongside it
Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Saltasaurus (Lecho), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.
Carnivore
Elbretornis
Cretaceous
Lectavis
Cretaceous
Noasaurus
Cretaceous
Soroavisaurus
Cretaceous
Yungavolucris
Cretaceous
Martinavis
Cretaceous
Enantiornis
Cretaceous
Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.
Scientific details
- Classification
- Sauropodomorph (long-necked)
- Family
- Saltasauridae
- When it lived
- 66–72.2 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Maastrichtian
- Named by
- Bonaparte and Powell, 1980
- Fossil occurrences
- 1 sites
Countries with fossils
- Argentina
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata