Inawentu oslatus Inawentu
"imitator"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Inawentu 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Gondwana · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
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.