Genus
Valid Extinct

Abditosaurus

Vila et al. 2022

Abditosaurus is an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Conques Formation of Catalonia, Spain. The genus contains a single species, Abditosaurus kuehnei, known from a partial specimen representing the most complete titanosaur skeleton found in Europe. Phylogenetic analyses recover it within a clade of South American and African saltasaurines, distinct from other insular dwarf sauropods from the European archipelago. Abditosaurus inhabited the Ibero-Armorican Island, a prehistoric island made up of what is now Spain, Portugal, and southern France, and would have been the largest titanosaur species in its environment.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Abditosaurus
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Life restoration of Abditosaurus kuehnei. © SpinoDragon145 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
Saurischia Unranked clade
Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
Massopoda Unranked clade
Sauropodiformes Unranked clade
Sauropoda Unranked clade
Gravisauria Unranked clade
Eusauropoda Unranked clade
Neosauropoda Unranked clade
Macronaria Unranked clade
Titanosauriformes Unranked clade
Somphospondyli Unranked clade
Titanosauria Unranked clade
Lithostrotia Unranked clade
Saltasauroidea Superfamily
Lohuecosauria Unranked clade
Saltasauridae Unranked clade
Abditosaurus Genus
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇪🇸 Spain
2
Geological formations
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
2
Species (1)
Abditosaurus kuehnei 72 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
B. Vila, A. Sellés, and M. Moreno-Azanza, N. L. Razzolini, A. Gil-Delgado, J. I. Canudo, A. Galobart. 2022. A titanosaurian sauropod with Gondwanan affinities in the latest Cretaceous of Europe. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6:288-296 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
B. Vila, A. Sellés, and M. Moreno-Azanza, N. L. Razzolini, A. Gil-Delgado, J. I. Canudo, A. Galobart. 2022. A titanosaurian sauropod with Gondwanan affinities in the latest Cretaceous of Europe. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6:288-296 DOI ↗