Arrudatitan
Extinct genus of titanosaur / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Arrudatitan | |
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Left femur of A. maximus, from the holotype specimen MPMA 12-0001-97 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Clade: | †Macronaria |
Clade: | †Titanosauria |
Clade: | †Lithostrotia |
Clade: | †Aeolosaurini |
Genus: | †Arrudatitan Silva et al., 2021 |
Type species | |
†Arrudatitan maximus Santucci & De Arruda-Campos, 2011 |
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Arrudatitan (meaning "Arruda's giant") is an extinct genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian)-aged Adamantina Formation of Brazil. The type species, A. maximus, was named and described in 2011 as a species of Aeolosaurus,[1] but was separated into its own genus in 2021.[2] It was relatively gracile for a titanosaur.