Punatitan
Name: Punatitan
(thin atmosphere giant).
Phonetic: Pu-nah-ty-tan.
Named By: E. Martín Hechenleitner, Léa
Leuzinger, Agustín G. Martinelli, Sebastián Rocher, Lucas E.
Fiorelli, Jeremías R. A. Taborda & Leonardo Salgado
- 2020.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Titanosauria, Lithostrotia.
Species: P. coughlini
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain due to incomplete fossil
preservation, but holotype roughly estimated to be about 14
meters long.
Known locations: Argentina, La Rioja - Ciénaga
del Río Huaco Formation.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial remains
including various vertebrae, sacrum, pubis,ischium and ribs.
Punatitan
is a genus of titanosaurian
dinosaur that lived in South America during
the late Cretaceous. The genus name of this dinosaur is a reference
to the thin air high up in the Andes mountain range where the holotype
fossils of Punatitan were first discovered.
Punatitan
was named alongside the genus Bravasarus
in the same paper in 2020.
Further reading
- Two Late Cretaceous sauropods reveal titanosaurian dispersal across
South America. - Communications Biology. 3 (1). - E.
Martín Hechenleitner, Léa Leuzinger, Agustín G. Martinelli,
Sebastián Rocher, Lucas E. Fiorelli, Jeremías R. A. Taborda
& Leonardo Salgado - 2020.
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