Angolatitan

Field photograph to come

DV-0771Itombe Fm., Angola

Angolatitan

DV-0771

Lived
90 to 86 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Sauropods
Found in
Angola
Named by
Mateus et al. 2011

Field notes

About Angolatitan

Angolatitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 90 to 86 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Angolatitan, from Angola. Its fossils come from the Itombe Formation. It was named by Mateus et al. in 2011.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

90 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Close relatives

Other members of Somphospondyli.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: O. M. Mateus, L. L. Jacobs, and A. S. Schulp, M. L. Polcyn, T. S. Tavares, A. B. Neto, M. L. Morais, M. T. Antunes. 2011. Angolatitan adamastor, a new sauropod dinosaur and the first record from Angola. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83(1):221-233