Name:
Narambuenatitan
(Narambuena titan).
Phonetic: Nah-ram-bwen-ah-ty-tan.
Named By: Leonardo S. Filippi, Rodolfo A.
Garc�a & Alberto C. Garrido - 2011.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Titanosauria, Titanosauroidea,
Lithostrotia.
Species: N. palomoi (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly estimated about 12 meters long.
Known locations: Argentina - Anacleto Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and post
cranial skeleton.
Narambuenatitan was a fairly small genus titanosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous. Narambuenatitan has also been noted as being similar to the genus Epachthosaurus, and the two are included within the Lithostrotia titanosaurs.
Further reading
- A new titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of
North Patagonia, Argentina. - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56
(3): 505–520. - Leonardo S. Filippi, Rodolfo A.
Garc�a & Alberto C. Garrido - 2011.