Gondwanatitan
Gondwana Titan; named after Gondwana, the ancient supercontinent, combined with Titan from Greek mythology
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 (70 mya). 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.
Species
Gondwanatitan faustoi Kellner & Azevedo, 1999
Type species
Named for Fausto L. de Souza Cunha, a former curator at the Museu Nacional/UFRJ who led the excavation of the type specimen.
- Holotype
- MN 4111-V , Museu Nacional
- Horizon
- Adamantina Formation, Campanian–Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous , 83.6–66.0 million years ago
- Locality
- Sítio Myzobuchi, São Paulo, Brazil The site is the farm of Yoshitoshi Myzobuchi, where the holotype was found in 1983.
References
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Kellner, A. W. A.; Azevedo, S. A. K. D. (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.
DOI 10.5834/jdh.29.65 was previously listed but resolves to an unrelated dental caries paper; this Kellner and Azevedo (1999) chapter in the NSM Monograph series has no registered DOI.
kellner1999a -
Jones, B. (2026). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: Sauropods. Princeton University Press.
Source of the hip height estimate.
jones2026b