†Saltasauroidea (Powell, 1992) França et al., 2016[1]
Genera[1][4]
Baurutitan?
Bustingorrytitan
Diamantinasaurus?
Isisaurus?
Titanomachya[2]
Udelartitan[3]
Aeolosaurini?
Nemegtosauridae
Saltasauridae
Saltasauroidea is a superfamily of titanosaurs named by França and colleagues in 2016 based on their phylogenetic results, for a clade uniting Aeolosaurini and Saltasauridae, as well as the intermediate genera Baurutitan, Diamantinasaurus and Isisaurus.[1] The group was not defined or discussed in the text, but was supported by Carballido and colleagues in 2022 as a useful designation for subdividing titanosaurs. As there was no discussion about the intentions for the clade, Carballido gave it the definition of all taxa closer to Saltasaurus than Patagotitan, encompassing half of Eutitanosauria as the sister taxon to the inversely defined Colossosauria. Carballido et al. placed Nemegtosauridae and Saltasauridae within the group, though they had Aeolosaurini within Colossosauria. The informal cladogram of titanosaur relationships they proposed is shown below.[4]
Titanosauria
Andesaurus
Diamantinasaurus (Diamantinasauria)
Eutitanosauria
Saltasauroidea
Nemegtosaurus
Saltasauridae
Opisthocoelicaudia (Opisthocoelicaudiinae)
Saltasaurus (Saltasaurinae)
Colossosauria
Epachthosaurus
Lognkosauria
Futalognkosaurus
Mendozasaurus
Patagotitan
Rinconsauria
Rinconsaurus
Muyelensaurus
Aeolosaurini
Gondwanatitan
Aeolosaurus
^ abcFrança, M.A.G.; Marsola, J.C.d A.; Riff, D.; Hsiou, A.S.; Langer, M.C. (2016). "New lower jaw and teeth referred to Maxakalisaurus topai (Titanosauria: Aeolosaurini) and their implications for the phylogeny of titanosaurid sauropods". PeerJ. 4: e2054. doi:10.7717/peerj.2054. PMC 4906671. PMID 27330853.
^Pérez-Moreno, A.; Salgado, L.; Carballido, J. L.; Otero, A.; Pol, D. (2024). "A new titanosaur from the La Colonia Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Chubut Province, Argentina". Historical Biology: 1–20. doi:10.1080/08912963.2024.2332997.
^Soto, Matías; Carballido, José L.; Langer, Max C.; Silva Junior, Julian C. G.; Montenegro, Felipe; Perea, Daniel (2024). "Phylogenetic relationships of a new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Uruguay". Cretaceous Research. 160. 105894. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105894.
^ abCarballido, J.L.; Otero, A.; Mannion, P.D.; Salgado, L.; Moreno, A.P. (2022). "Titanosauria: A Critical Reappraisal of Its Systematics and the Relevance of the South American Record". In Otero, A.; Carballido, J.L.; Pol, D. (eds.). South American Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Record, Diversity and Evolution. Springer. pp. 269–298. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-95959-3. ISBN 978-3-030-95958-6. ISSN 2197-9596. S2CID 248368302.
Saltasauroidea is a superfamily of titanosaurs named by França and colleagues in 2016 based on their phylogenetic results, for a clade uniting Aeolosaurini...
and Saltasaurus, creating a node-stem clade with Colossosauria and Saltasauroidea, presenting the informal cladogram of stable titanosaur clades below...
using Lithostrotia, they suggested that Eutitanosauria be divided into Saltasauroidea and Colossosauria. They also refined Colossosauria as being the most...
be in the clade Lithostrotia, itself recovered as a subclade of the Saltasauroidea. This result is similar to that recovered in the 2023 description of...
of the Lithostrotia, which itself is recovered as a subclade of the Saltasauroidea, in contrast to most analyses. The results of the analysis are shown...
Guichón Formation Uruguay A titanosaur sauropod belonging to the group Saltasauroidea. The type species is U. celeste. Vectidromeus Gen. et sp. nov Valid...
to the previous work, they found support for a position within the Saltasauroidea. They used two data-matrices to assess the phylogenetic position of...
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