Genus
Valid Extinct

Lohuecotitan

Díez Díaz et al. 2016

Lohuecotitan is an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous in Spain. The only species known in the genus is Lohuecotitan pandafilandi, described and named in 2016.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Lohuecotitan
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Figuras de abelisaurio y Lohuecotitan. Museo Paleontológico de Castilla-La Mancha (Cuenca) © PePeEfe · CC BY-SA 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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Eutitanosauria Unranked clade
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Lohuecotitan Genus
Measurements
Length
11 m ⓘ
Lohuecotitan pandafilandi
Mass
3 200 kg ⓘ
Lohuecotitan pandafilandi
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇪🇸 Spain
1
Geological formations
Villalba de la Sierra
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Lohuecotitan pandafilandi 84 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
V. Díez Díaz, P. Mocho, and A. Páramo, F. Escaso, F. Marcos-Fernández, J. L. Sanz, F. Ortega. 2016. A new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain). Cretaceous Research 68:49-60 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
V. Díez Díaz, P. Mocho, and A. Páramo, F. Escaso, F. Marcos-Fernández, J. L. Sanz, F. Ortega. 2016. A new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain). Cretaceous Research 68:49-60 DOI ↗