Atacamatitan chilensis Atacamatitan
"Atacama Desert titan"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Atacamatitan 1.1 m (3.6 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1.1 m (3.6 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100.5–68 Mya)
- Place
- Chile
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Atacamatitan (meaning “Atacama Desert titan”) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Tolar Formation of Chile.
What we know
- Named by Kellner et al., 2011.
- Body length estimated at about 1.1 m.
- Fossils found in Chile.