Inawentu

DV-1244 · type species Inawentu oslatus

Lived: 86 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Sauropods
Found in: Argentina
Named by: Filippi et al. 2024

Field notes

About Inawentu

Inawentu was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 86 to 84 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Inawentu, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation. It was named by Filippi et al. in 2024.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Eutitanosauria.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: L. S. Filippi, R. D. Juárez Valieri, and P. A. Gallina, A. H. Méndez, F. A. Gianechini, A. C. Garrido. 2024. A rebbachisaurid-mimicking titanosaur and evidence of a Late Cretaceous faunal disturbance event in South-West Gondwana. Cretaceous Research 154:105754