Garrigatitan

DV-1137 · type species Garrigatitan meridionalis

Lived: 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Sauropods
Found in: France
Named by: Díez Díaz et al. 2021

Field notes

About Garrigatitan

Garrigatitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 72 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Garrigatitan, from France. It was named by Díez Díaz et al. in 2021.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Close relatives

Other members of Lirainosaurinae.

AmpelosaurusLate Cretaceous
AtsinganosaurusLate Cretaceous
LirainosaurusLate Cretaceous

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: V. Díez Díaz, G. Garcia, and X. Pereda Suberbiola, B. Jentgen-Ceschino, K. Stein, P. Godefroit, X. Valentin. 2021. A new titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Velaux-La-Bastide Neuve (southern France). Historical Biology 33(11):2998-3017