Chadititan

"salt titan"

Type species Chadititan calvoi

Lived: 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Sauropods
Found in: Argentina
Named by: Agnolin et al. 2025

Where its fossils were found

The evidence

Today

1 find

80 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Field notes

About Chadititan

What it was like

Chadititan was a small titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater. It is known from part of one skeleton.

Its world

It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. It comes from the Anacleto Formation, where it shared the land with the abelisaur Aucasaurus, the megaraptor Aerosteon and the small plant eater Gasparinisaura.

How it was found

Agnolin and colleagues named Chadititan in 2025. The type species is Chadititan calvoi.

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations

Close relatives

Other members of Rinconsauria

Sources: WikidataNamed in: F. Agnolin, M. Motta, and J. García Marsá, M. Aranciaga Rolando, G. Alvarez Herrera, N. Chimento, S. Rozadilla, F. Brizzon-Egli, M. Cerroni, K. Panzeri, S. Bogan, S. Casadio, J. Sterli, S. Miquel, S. Martínez, L. Perez, D. Pol, F. Novas. 2025. New fossiliferous locality from the Anacleto Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian) from northern Patagonia, with the description of a new titanosaur. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 26(2):217-259