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Europatitan

Summary

Europatitan (meaning "European giant") is a genus of somphospondylan sauropod from the Early Cretaceous Castrillo de la Reina Formation of Iberia, known from a relatively completely specimen discovered in the early 2000s. It contains a single species, E. eastwoodi, named after actor and director Clint Eastwood, whose film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was shot near the site.[1]

Europatitan
Temporal range: Barremian-Aptian, 125 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: †Sauropodomorpha
Clade: †Sauropoda
Clade: †Macronaria
Clade: †Somphospondyli
Genus: †Europatitan
Fernández-Baldor et al, 2017
Type species
Europatitan eastwoodi
Fernández-Baldor et al, 2017
Quarry map of the partial holotype specimen
Europatitan reconstruction

The holotype discovered at "El Oterillo II" in the Castrillo de la Reina Formation (Urbión Group) in 2003.

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References edit

  1. ^ Fernández-Baldor, F.T.; Canudo, J.I.; Huerta, P.; Moreno-Azanza, M.; Montero, D. (2017). "Europatitan eastwoodi, a new sauropod from the lower Cretaceous of Iberia in the initial radiation of somphospondylans in Laurasia". PeerJ. 5: e3409. doi:10.7717/peerj.3409. PMC 5490465. PMID 28674644.