Europatitan
Field photograph to come
Europatitan
DV-0980 · type species Europatitan eastwoodi
- Lived
- 126 to 120 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Spain
- Named by
- Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. 2017
Field notes
About Europatitan
Europatitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 126 to 120 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Europatitan, from Spain. Its fossils come from the Castrillo de la Reina Formation. It was named by Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. in 2017.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
125 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Somphospondyli.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. Torcida Fernández-Baldor, J. I. Canudo, and P. Huerta, M. Moreno-Azanza, D. Montero. 2017. Europatitan eastwoodi, a new sauropod from the lower Cretaceous of Iberia in the initial radiation of somphospondylans in Laurasia. PeerJ 5:e3409:1-50