Arrudatitan
"Arruda"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Arrudatitan 15 m (49 ft) long
as long as 9 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 15 m (49 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72.1–68 Mya)
- Place
- Brazil
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Arrudatitan (meaning “Arruda’s giant”) is an extinct genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian)-aged Adamantina Formation of Brazil. The type species, A. maximus, was named and described in 2011 as a species of Aeolosaurus, but was separated into its own genus in 2021. It was relatively gracile for a titanosaur.
What we know
- Named by Silva et al., 2021.
- Body length estimated at about 15 m.
- Fossils found in Brazil.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Arrudatitan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.