Outline: a typical sauropod
Gondwanatitan
"Gondwana titan"
- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Brazil
- Named by
- Kellner and Azevedo 1999
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
75 million years ago
Field notes
About Gondwanatitan
What it was like
Gondwanatitan was a fairly small titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater. It was a close relative of Aeolosaurus. Its tail bones had spines that leaned forward, like those of its relatives.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Brazil. Its bones come from the Adamantina Formation, where the titanosaur Maxakalisaurus also lived. Brazil was then part of Gondwana, the southern supercontinent.
How it was found
Kellner and Azevedo named Gondwanatitan in 1999.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Aeolosaurini
Sources: WikidataNamed in: A. W. A. Kellner and S. A. K. d Azevedo. 1999. A new sauropod dinosaur (Titanosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:111-142