Bonatitan
Field photograph to come
Bonatitan
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- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Saltasauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Martinelli and Forasiepi 2004
Field notes
About Bonatitan
Bonatitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago. It belongs to the family Saltasauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Bonatitan, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Allen Formation. It was named by Martinelli and Forasiepi in 2004.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
70 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Saltasauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. G. Martinelli and A. M. Forasiepi. 2004. Late Cretaceous vertebrates from Bajo de Santa Rosa (Allen Formation), Río Negro province, Argentina, with the description of a new sauropod dinosaur (Titanosauridae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 6(2):257-305