Chadititan calvoi
"titan of the salt"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Chadititan 7 m (23 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 7 m (23 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (83–74.5 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Chadititan (meaning “titan of the salt”) is an extinct genus of titanosaurian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Anacleto Formation of Argentina. The genus contains a single species, C. calvoi, known from several fragmentary skeletons. Chadititan is characterized by its small size compared to related taxa and its particularly gracile limbs.
What we know
- Named by Agnolín et al., 2025.
- Body length estimated at about 7 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Chadititan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.