Inawentu

What it was like

Inawentu was a titanosaur, a long-necked, four-legged plant eater, known from a partial skeleton with a skull. It had a short neck for a sauropod and a squared-off jaw, like that of Nigersaurus.

Those features suggest it fed on low plants, cropping them like a lawnmower. Its name, meaning "imitator," refers to how it came to look like other ground feeders.

Its world

It lived about 86 to 84 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation, where it shared the land with the titanosaur Bonitasaura and the small hunters Alvarezsaurus and Velocisaurus.

How it was found

Filippi and colleagues named Inawentu in 2024, from a single find.