Name:
Nullotitan
(Nullos’ titan).
Phonetic: Nul-lo-ty-tan.
Named By: X
Fernando E Novas, Federico Agnolin, Sebastián Rozadilla, Alexis
Mauro Aranciaga Rolando, Federico Brissón Egli, Matias Motta,
Mauricio Cerroni, Martin Ezcurra, Agustin G. Martinelli, Julia
D'Angelo, Gerardo Alvarez Herrera, Adriel Gentil, Sergio Bogan,
Nicolas Chimento, Jordi Garcia Marsŕ, Gastón Lo Coco, Sergio
Miquel, Fátima Fernanda Brito, Ezequiel Ignacio Vera, Valeria
Perez Loinaze, Mariela Soledad Fernández & Leonardo
Salgado - 2019.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Titanosauria, Lithostrotia,
Colossosauria.
Species: N. glaciaris
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain but roughly estimated at around
20 meters long for the holotype. Humerus 114 centimetres long.
Known locations: Argentina - Chorrillo Formation.
Time period: Argentina - Chorrillo Formation.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial skeleton
including fore and hind limb bones, caudal (tail) vertebrae and
cervical (neck )vertebrae.
Nullotitan
is a genus of titanosaurian
dinosaur that lived in South America during
the late Cretaceous. With an estimated length of around twenty meters
long for the holotype individual, Nullotitan was
a big dinosaur,
but a medium average amongst other titanosaurs.
Further reading
- Paleontological discoveries in the Chorrillo Formation (upper
Campanian-lower Maastrichtian, Upper Cretaceous), Santa Cruz
Province, Patagonia, Argentina. - Revista del Museo Argentino
de Ciencias Naturales. 21 (2): 217–293. - Fernando E
Novas, Federico Agnolin, Sebastián Rozadilla, Alexis Mauro
Aranciaga Rolando, Federico Brissón Egli, Matias Motta, Mauricio
Cerroni, Martin Ezcurra, Agustin G. Martinelli, Julia
D'Angelo, Gerardo Alvarez Herrera, Adriel Gentil, Sergio Bogan,
Nicolas Chimento, Jordi Garcia Marsŕ, Gastón Lo Coco, Sergio
Miquel, Fátima Fernanda Brito, Ezequiel Ignacio Vera, Valeria
Perez Loinaze, Mariela Soledad Fernández & Leonardo
Salgado - 2019.