Europatitan
Name:
Europatitan
(Europa titan).
Phonetic: Yew-rop-ah-ty-tan.
Named By: F. Torcida Fern�ndez-Baldor, J. I.
Canudo, P. Huerta, M. Moreno-Azanza & D. Montero
- 2017
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Somphospondyli.
Species: E. eastwoodi
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly estimated about 20 meters long.
Known locations: Spain - Castrillo de la Reina
Formation.
Time period: Barremian/Aptian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial remains.
Europatitan was a very large somphospondylan sauropod dinosaur that lived in Spain during the early Cretaceous. The type species name E. eastwoodi was inspired by the actor Clint Eastwood.
Further reading
- Europatitan eastwoodi, a new sauropod from
the lower Cretaceous
of Iberia in the initial radiation of somphospondylans in Laurasia.
- PeerJ 5:e3409:1-50 - F. Torcida Fern�ndez-Baldor, J.
I. Canudo, P. Huerta, M. Moreno-Azanza & D.
Montero - 2017.
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