Garrigatitan
Name:
Garrigatitan
(garrigue titan).
Phonetic: Gar-rig-ah-ty-tan.
Named By: Ver�nica D�ez D�az, G�raldine Garcia,
Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, Benjamin Jentgen-Ceschino, Koen Stein,
Pascal Godefroit &Xavier Valentin - 2020.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Titanosauria, Lirainosaurinae,
Lithostrotia.
Species: G. meridionalis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of remains, but
holotype, which is a juvenile/subadult is roughly estimated to be
about 4-6 meters long at the time of death. Fully grown adults
would have been larger.
Known locations: France - Gr�s � Reptiles
Formation.
Time period: Late Campanian/Early Maastrichtian of
the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial sacrum of a
subadult. Additional fossil bones found near to the holotype have
also been assigned to the genus and these include vertebrae, ribs and
limb bones.
Garrigatitan
is a genus of titanosaur
that lived in Western Europe during the late
Cretaceous. Known only from partial remains of an immature
individual, Garrigatitan seems to have been a
fairly small
titanosaur, even when fully grown.
Further reading
- A new titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper
Cretaceous of Velaux-La-Bastide Neuve (southern France). -
Historical Biology: 1–20. - Ver�nica D�ez D�az, G�raldine
Garcia, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, Benjamin Jentgen-Ceschino, Koen
Stein, Pascal Godefroit &Xavier Valentin - 2020.
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