Gondwanatitan
"giant from Gondwana"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Gondwanatitan 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (70 Mya)
- Place
- Gondwana · Brazil
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Gondwanatitan (meaning “giant from Gondwana”) was a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur. Gondwanatitan was found in Brazil, at the time part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana, in the late Cretaceous Period (70 mya). Like some other sauropods, Gondwanatitan was tall and ate tough shoots and leaves from the tops of trees. Its closest relative was Aeolosaurus. The type species is Gondwanatitan faustoi, formally described by Kellner and de Azevedo in 1999.
What we know
- Named by Kellner & de Azevedo, 1999.
- Fossils found in Gondwana and Brazil.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Gondwanatitan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.