Famille
Valide Éteint

Balochisauridae

Malkani 2003

Saltasauridae is a family of armored herbivorous sauropods from the Upper Cretaceous. They are known from fossils found in South America, Africa, Asia, North America, and Europe. They are characterized by their vertebrae and feet, which are similar to those of Saltasaurus, the first of the group to be discovered and the source of the name. The last and largest of the group and only one found in North America, Alamosaurus, was twenty-six metres in length and one of the last sauropods to go extinct.

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Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
23
Groupe
Dinosaures
Herbivore Vivant au sol, grégaire Terrestre
Balochisauridae
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Saltasaurus (which means "lizard from Salta") was a sauropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous Period. Relatively small among sauropods, though still massive by human standards, it was characterized by a diplodocid-like head © LadyofHats Altered by Steveoc 86 and FunkMonk · Public domain · Wikimedia

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Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
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Saurischia Clade non classé
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Sauropodomorpha Clade non classé
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Massopoda Clade non classé
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Sauropodiformes Clade non classé
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Sauropoda Clade non classé
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Gravisauria Clade non classé
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Eusauropoda Clade non classé
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Neosauropoda Clade non classé
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Macronaria Clade non classé
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Titanosauriformes Clade non classé
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Somphospondyli Clade non classé
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Titanosauria Clade non classé
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Balochisauridae Famille
Sites de découverte 23 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇵🇰 Pakistan
22
🇮🇳 Inde
1
Formations géologiques
Vitakri
22
Lameta
1
Distribution temporelle
Maastrichtien (72.2–66 Ma)
23
Images 1
Bibliographie
Description originale
M. S. Malkani. 2003. Discovery of partial skull and dentary of Titanosauria (sauropod dinosaur) from the Late Cretaceous Pab Formation of Vitakri area, Barkhan District, Balochistan, Pakistan. Geological Bulletin, University of Peshawar 36:65-71
Bibliographie (3)
M. S. Malkani. 2023. A glance on the mineral deposits and stratigraphic sequential variations and structures in different sections of Indus Basin (Pakistan): new titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs from the latest Maastrichtian Vitakri Formation of Pakistan. Open Journal of Geology 13(10):1069-1138 DOI ↗
M. S. Malkani. 2009. New Balochisaurus (Balochisauridae, Titanosauria, Sauropoda) and Vitakridrinda (Theropoda) remains From Pakistan. Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series) 41(2):65-92
M. S. Malkani. 2006. Biodiversity of saurischian dinosaurs from the latest Cretaceous Park of Pakistan. Journal of Applied and Emerging Sciences 1(3):108-140