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
2
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Gondwanatitan
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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
Measurements
Length
10 m ⓘ
Gondwanatitan faustoi
Mass
2 500 kg ⓘ
Gondwanatitan faustoi
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇧🇷 Brazil
2
Geological formations
Cambambe
1
Adamantina
1
Temporal distribution
Campanian (83.6–72.2 Ma)
2
Species (1)
Gondwanatitan faustoi 84 Ma
Images 2
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 ↗
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