Duriatitan

DV-0732

Lived: 155 to 137 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Sauropods
Found in: United Kingdom and France
Named by: Barrett et al. 2010

Field notes

About Duriatitan

Duriatitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 155 to 137 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 5 finds of Duriatitan, from United Kingdom and France. Its fossils come from rocks including the Kimmeridge Clay Formation and the Mont-Lambert Formation. It was named by Barrett et al. in 2010.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

5 finds

145 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Titanosauriformes.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. M. Barrett, R. B. J. Benson, and P. Upchurch. 2010. Dinosaurs of Dorset: Part II, the sauropod dinosaurs (Saurischia, Sauropoda) with additional comments of the theropods. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 131:113-126