Inawentu oslatus
"imitator"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Inawentu 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Gondwana · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Inawentu (meaning “imitator”) is an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation of Argentina. The genus contains a single species, I. oslatus, known from a partial articulated skeleton including the skull. The square-shaped jaw of Inawentu demonstrates convergent characteristics with rebbachisaurids.
What we know
- Named by Filippi et al., 2024.
- Fossils found in Gondwana and Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Inawentu — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.