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 reconstruction by Connor Ashbridge
Reconstruction · Connor Ashbridge (CC-BY)

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.