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Saltasaurus
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One of the earliest meat-eating dinosaurs found so far. Saltasaurus lived in what is now Antarctica and had a small curved crest on the top of its head.
Scraps of skin have been found showing that Saltasaurus had small bony nodules for armour.
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- Pronounced
- salt-a-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- Salta lizard
- Length
- 12m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(70 - 65 million years ago) - Found in
- Argentina, Uruguay
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Macronaria, Camarasauromorpha, Titanosauriformes, Titanosauria, Lithostrotia, Saltasauridae, Saltasaurus
- Named by
- Bonaparte and Powell (1980)
- Type species
- loricatus