Gondwanatitan

Taxobox|
name = "Gondwanatitan"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Sauropodomorpha
infraordo = Sauropoda
unranked_familia = Titanosauria
genus = "Gondwanatitan"
binomial = "Gondwanatitan faustoi"
binomial_authority = Kellner & de Azevedo, 1999

"Gondwanatitan" (meaning "Gondwana titan") was a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur. "Gondwanatitan" was found in Brazil, at the time part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana, in the late Cretaceous Period (70 mya). Like some other sauropods, "Gondwanatitan" was tall and ate tough shoots and leaves off of the tops of trees. Some of this dinosaur's cousins include "Brachiosaurus", "Sauroposeidon", and "Malawisaurus".

The type species is "Gondwanatitan faustoi", formally described by Kellner and de Azevedo in 1999.

References

Kellner, A.W.A. and de Azevedo, S.A.K. (1999). "A new sauropod dinosaur (Titanosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil" in: Tomida, Y., Rich, T.H., and Vickers-Rich, P. (eds.), "Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium", National Science Museum Monographs 15: 111-142

External links

* [http://membres.lycos.fr/dinomania/Index/gondwanatitan.html "Gondwanatitan" site (in French)]
* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=66573 "Gondwanatitan"] in the Paleobiology Database