Tyrannotitan tih-ranuh-TEYETUHN
"tyrant titan"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tyrannotitan 1.4 m (4.6 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1.4 m (4.6 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (113–100.5 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Argentina
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Carcharodontosauridae
Tyrannotitan (; “tyrant titan”) is a genus of large theropod dinosaur belonging to the carcharodontosaurid family. It is known from a single species, T. chubutensis, which lived during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina. Tyrannotitan is considered to share a close relationship with other prominent South American carcharodontosaurids such as Giganotosaurus and Mapusaurus. Unlike its relatives, it was bulkier and more robust. This taxon is known from two specimens, both of which are highly incomplete.
What we know
- Named by Novas et al., 2005.
- Body length estimated at about 1.4 m.
- Fossils found in South America and Argentina.