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Taxon: Genus †Saltasaurus Bonaparte & Powell, 1980 (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Sauropodomorpha - (Family) Saltasauridae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Eusauropoda (Clade) Upchurch 1995 Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: table 1 (p. 590) (Upchurch et al., 2004).
†Lithostrotia (Clade) Upchurch, Barrett & Dodson 2004 Ref: P. Upchurch et al., 2004: 311.
†Neosauropoda (Clade) Bonaparte 1986 [Wilson & Sereno 1998] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Neosauropoda (Clade) Bonaparte 1986 [Wilson & Sereno 1998] Ref: J.A. Whitlock, 2011: table 5 (p. 883) (Wilson & Sereno, 1998).
†Saltasauridae (Clade) Sereno 1998 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Saltasaurini (Clade) Salgado & Bonaparte 2007 Ref: L. Salgado & J.F. Bonaparte, 2007: 214 ("Saltasaurinae sensu Salgado et al. 1997a").
†Sauropodiformes (Clade) Sereno 2007 Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: table 1 (p. 590) (Sereno, 2007).
†Sauropodomorpha (Clade) Huene 1932 [Salgado et al. 1997] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Titanosauriformes (Clade) Salgado, Coria & Calvo 1997 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Eusauropoda (Clade) Upchurch 1995 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Macronaria (Clade) Wilson & Sereno 1998 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Massopoda (Clade) Yates 2007 Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: table 1 (p. 590) (Yates, 2007a, b).
†Saltasaurinae (Clade) Powell 1992 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Sauropoda (Clade) Marsh 1878 [Salgado et al. 1997] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Sauropoda (Clade) Marsh 1878 [Salgado et al. 1997] Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: table 1 (p. 590) (Yates, 2007b).
†Sauropodomorpha (Clade) Huene 1932 [Salgado et al. 1997] Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: 249.
†Sauropodomorpha (Clade) Huene 1932 [Salgado et al. 1997] Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: table 1 (p. 590) (Sereno, 2007).
†Somphospondyli (Clade) Wilson & Sereno 1998 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Titanosauria (Clade) Bonaparte & Coria 1993 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Brachiosauridae (Clade) Riggs 1904 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Diplodocoidea (Clade) Upchurch 1995 [Wilson & Sereno 1998] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Diplodocoidea (Clade) Upchurch 1995 [Wilson & Sereno 1998] Ref: J.A. Whitlock, 2011: table 5 (p. 883) (Wilson & Sereno, 1998).
†Opisthocoelicaudinae (Clade) Sereno 1998 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Prosauropoda (Clade) Huene 1920 [Sereno 1998] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
Theropoda (Clade) Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 64).

Current position

†Saltasaurinae (Subfamily) Powell, 1992 Ref: V. Díez Díaz et al., 2018: 452 (fig. 17). [implicit]

Alternative positions

†Saltasauridae (Clade) Sereno 1998 Ref: P. Upchurch et al., 2004: table 13.1 (p. [270]).
†Saltasaurinae (Clade) Powell 1992 Ref: V. Díez Díaz et al., 2018: 452 (fig. 17).
†Saltasaurini (Clade) Salgado & Bonaparte 2007 Ref: P.A. Gallina & A. Otero, 2015: 498 (fig. 7).
†Titanosauridae (Family) Lydekker, 1885 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 145.

Historical positions

†Lithostrotia (Clade) Upchurch, Barrett & Dodson 2004 Ref: B.J. González Riga et al., 2018: 173 (fig. 27).
†Saltasaurinae (Clade) Powell 1992 Ref: V. Díez Díaz et al., 2018: 452 (fig. 17).
†Lithostrotia (Clade) Upchurch, Barrett & Dodson 2004 Ref: B.B. Britt et al., 2017: 234 (fig. 35).
†Saltasaurini (Clade) Salgado & Bonaparte 2007 Ref: P.A. Gallina & A. Otero, 2015: 498 (fig. 7).
†Saltasaurini (Clade) Salgado & Bonaparte 2007 Ref: M.D. D'Emic, 2012: table 3 (p. 633).
†Saltasauridae (Clade) Sereno 1998 Ref: P. Upchurch et al., 2004: table 13.1 (p. [270]), 297 (fig. 13.18).
†Titanosauridae (Family) Lydekker, 1885 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 145.
†Titanosauridae (Family) Lydekker, 1885 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 145.
†Titanosauridae (Family) Lydekker, 1885 Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 302.
†Titanosauridae (Family) Lydekker, 1885 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621).
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