Outline: a typical sauropod
Soriatitan
"Soria titan"
Type species Soriatitan golmayensis
- Lived
- 133 to 121 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Brachiosauridae
- Found in
- Spain
- Named by
- Royo-Torres et al. 2017
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
125 million years ago
Field notes
About Soriatitan
What it was like
Soriatitan was a brachiosaurid, a long-necked plant eater with front legs longer than its hind legs. It is known from part of the skeleton and teeth.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now Spain. It comes from the Golmayo Formation, where the armored Polacanthus and the plant eater Magnamanus have also been found. It is one of the last brachiosaurids known from Europe.
How it was found
Royo-Torres and colleagues named Soriatitan in 2017. The type species is Soriatitan golmayensis.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Brachiosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. Royo-Torres, C. Fuentes, and M. Meijide, F. Meijide-Fuentes, M. Meijide-Fuentes. 2017. A new Brachiosauridae sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Europe (Soria Province, Spain). Cretaceous Research 80:38-55