Punatitan coughlini
"puna giant"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Punatitan 14 m (46 ft) long
as long as 8 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 14 m (46 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Punatitan (meaning “puna giant”) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Ciénaga del Río Huaco Formation of La Rioja, Argentina. It contains one species, Punatitan coughlini.
What we know
- Named by Hechenleitner et al., 2020.
- Body length estimated at about 14 m.
- Fossils found in South America and Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Punatitan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.