Arrudatitan
Field photograph to come
Arrudatitan
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- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Brazil
- Named by
- Silva Junior et al. 2022
Field notes
About Arrudatitan
Arrudatitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Arrudatitan, from Brazil. Its fossils come from the Adamantina Formation. It was named by Silva Junior et al. in 2022.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
75 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Rinconsauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. C. G. Silva Junior, A. G. Martinelli, and F. V. Iori, T. S. Marinho, E. M. Hechenleitner, M. C. Langer. 2022. Reassessment of Aeolosaurus maximus, a titanosaur dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Brazil. Historical Biology 34(3):403-411