Elaltitan
Field photograph to come
Elaltitan
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- Lived
- 90 to 86 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Mannion and Otero 2012
Field notes
About Elaltitan
Elaltitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 90 to 86 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Elaltitan, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Lago Colhué Huapi Formation. It was named by Mannion and Otero in 2012.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
90 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Lithostrotia.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. D. Mannion and A. Otero. 2012. A reappraisal of the Late Cretaceous Argentinean sauropod dinosaur Argyrosaurus superbus, with a description of a new titanosaur genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(3):614-638