Phosphatotitan

What it was like

Phosphatotitan was a titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater, known from a partial skeleton.

Its world

It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the very end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Morocco. Its bones come from phosphate beds that formed in a shallow sea, which suggests its body washed out from land. Other dinosaurs from these rocks include the predator Chenanisaurus and the small duckbill Ajnabia.

How it was found

Longrich and colleagues named it in 2026. The type species is Phosphatotitan khouribgaensis.