Outline: a typical sauropod
Nullotitan
"Nullo's titan"
Type species Nullotitan glaciaris
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Novas et al. 2019
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Nullotitan
What it was like
Nullotitan was a titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater. It is known from bones of several individuals, including parts of the backbone and limbs.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous, in the far south of what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Chorrillo Formation, where it lived alongside the plant eater Isasicursor and the big predator Maip.
How it was found
Novas and colleagues named it in 2019. The type species is Nullotitan glaciaris.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Lithostrotia
Sources: WikidataNamed in: F. E. Novas, F. L. Agnolin, and S. Rozadilla, A. M. Aranciaga-Rolando, F. Brisson-Egli, M. J. Motta, M. Cerroni, M. D. Ezcurra, A. G. Martinelli, J. S. D.’Angelo, G. Alvarez-Herrera. 2019. Paleontological discoveries in the Chorrillo Formation (upper Campanian-lower Maastrichtian, Upper Cretaceous), Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie 21(2):217-293