Outline: a typical sauropod
Elaltitan
- Lived
- 90 to 86 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Mannion and Otero 2012
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
90 million years ago
Field notes
About Elaltitan
What it was like
Elaltitan was a large titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater. It is known from bones of the back, tail and limbs.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Argentina.
How it was found
Its bones were long thought to belong to Argyrosaurus. Mannion and Otero gave it its own name in 2012.
Close relatives
Other members of Lithostrotia
Sources: WikidataNamed in: P. D. Mannion and A. Otero. 2012. A reappraisal of the Late Cretaceous Argentinean sauropod dinosaur Argyrosaurus superbus, with a description of a new titanosaur genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(3):614-638