Phosphatotitan khouribgaensis Phosphatotitan
"phosphate giant"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Phosphatotitan 40 m (131 ft) long
23 people holding hands
- Length
- 40 m (131 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Morocco
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Argentinosauridae
Phosphatotitan (“phosphate giant”) is an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian age) Ouled Abdoun Basin of Morocco. The genus contains a single species, Phosphatotitan khouribgaensis, known from a partial skeleton.
What we know
- Named by Longrich et al., 2026.
- Body length estimated at about 40 m.
- Fossils found in Morocco.