Outline: a typical sauropod
Wintonotitan
"Winton titan"
Type species Wintonotitan wattsi
- Lived
- 101 to 90 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Australia
- Named by
- Hocknull et al. 2009
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
95 million years ago
Field notes
About Wintonotitan
What it was like
Wintonotitan was a long-necked plant eater, a relative of the titanosaurs. It is known from parts of the skeleton, including bones of the back, tail, shoulders and legs.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in Australia. Its bones come from the Winton Formation, a land of rivers where it shared the land with the titanosaurs Diamantinasaurus and Savannasaurus and the predator Australovenator.
How it was found
Hocknull and colleagues named it in 2009. The type species is Wintonotitan wattsi. There are 7 recorded finds.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Diamantinasauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. A. Hocknull, M. A. White, and T. R. Tischler, A. G. Cook, N. D. Calleja, T. Sloan, D. A. Elliot. 2009. New mid-Cretaceous (latest Albian) dinosaurs from Winton, Queensland, Australia. PLoS ONE 4(7):e6190: 1-51