Genus

Valid Extinct

Gondwanatitan

Kellner and Azevedo 1999

Gondwanatitan was a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur. Gondwanatitan was found in Brazil, at the time part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana, in the late Cretaceous Period. Like some other sauropods, Gondwanatitan was tall and ate tough shoots and leaves from the tops of trees. Its closest relative was Aeolosaurus. The type species is Gondwanatitan faustoi, formally described by Kellner and de Azevedo in 1999.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial

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Skeleton of Gondwanatitan faustoi (MN 4111-V), not to scale.(adapted from Kellner and Campos, 2000). © E. G. Nascimento, C. R. A. Candeiro, L. Vidal, E. F. Oliveira, T. C. Dias & S. Brusatte · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Unranked clade

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Saurischia Unranked clade

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Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade

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Massopoda Unranked clade

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Sauropodiformes Unranked clade

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Sauropoda Unranked clade

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Gravisauria Unranked clade

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Eusauropoda Unranked clade

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Neosauropoda Unranked clade

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Macronaria Unranked clade

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Titanosauriformes Unranked clade

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Somphospondyli Unranked clade

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Titanosauria Unranked clade

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Lithostrotia Unranked clade

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Aeolosaurini Unranked clade

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Gondwanatitan Genus

Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇧🇷 Brazil

Geological formations

Cambambe

Adamantina

Temporal distribution

Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)

Species (1)

Gondwanatitan faustoi 84 Ma

Images 1

Bibliography

Original description

A. W. A. Kellner and S. A. K. d Azevedo. 1999. A new sauropod dinosaur (Titanosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:111-142

Bibliography (2)

A. C. Franco-Rosas, L. Salgado, and C. F. Rosas, I. d. S. Carvalho. 2004. Nuevos materiales de titanosaurios (Sauropoda) en el Cretácico Superior de Mato Grosso, Brasil [New materials of titanosaurs (Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mato Grosso, Brazil]. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 7(3):329-336 DOI ↗