Elaltitan
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Elaltitan 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (96.5–89.3 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Elaltitan is an extinct genus of large lithostrotian titanosaur sauropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (mid Cenomanian to Turonian stage) of Chubut Province, southern Argentina. It contains a single species, Elaltitan lilloi.
What we know
- Named by Mannion & Otero, 2012.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Elaltitan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.