Garrigatitan meridionalis
"garrigue giant"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Garrigatitan 6 m (19.7 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 6 m (19.7 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (74–70 Mya)
- Place
- France
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Garrigatitan (meaning “garrigue giant”) is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of the Grès à Reptiles Formation in France. The genus contains a single species, Garrigatitan meridionalis.
What we know
- Named by Díez Díaz et al., 2021.
- Body length estimated at about 6 m.
- Fossils found in France.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Garrigatitan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.