Punatitan
Field photograph to come
Punatitan
DV-1113 · type species Punatitan coughlini
- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Hechenleitner et al. 2020
Field notes
About Punatitan
Punatitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 84 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Punatitan, from Argentina. Its fossils come from the Ciénaga del Río Huaco Formation. It was named by Hechenleitner et al. in 2020.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
75 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Rinconsauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: E. M. Hechenleitner, L. Leuzinger, and A. G. Martinelli, S. Rocher, L. E. Fiorelli, J. R. A. Taborda, L. Salgado. 2020. Two Late Cretaceous sauropods reveal titanosaurian dispersal across South America. Communications Biology 3:622:1-13