Angolatitan
"Angolan giant"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Angolatitan 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Angolatitan (meaning “Angolan giant”) is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous. It is also the first non-avian dinosaur discovered in Angola. The genus contains a single species, Angolatitan adamastor, known from a partial right forelimb. Angolatitan was a relict form of its time; it was a Late Cretaceous basal titanosauriform, when more derived titanosaurs were far more common.
What we know
- Named by Mateus et al., 2011.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Angolatitan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.