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long-neck giant
Arrudatitan
Say it like this: “ar-HU-da-TIE-tuhn”
Arrudatitan maximus
Arrudatitan ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Brazil.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 2022 · Silva Junior, J. C. G.; Martinelli, A. G.; Iori, F. V.; Marinho, T. S.; Hechenleitner, E. M.; Langer, M. C.
- Hip height
- 3.2 m · 10 ft
- Length
- 15 m · 49 ft
- Weight
- 6 tonnes
- Found in
- Brazil · Adamantina
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Aeolosaurini
The story in short
In 2022, J. C. G. Silva Junior and colleagues published the name Arrudatitan. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian), roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from Brazil, including the Adamantina Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Arrudatitan at a length near 15 m, hips about 3.2 m high, and a body mass around 6 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Aeolosaurini, among the sauropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Adamantisaurus
Adamantisaurus mezzalirai
Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago
Aeolosaurus
Aeolosaurus rionegrinus
Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago
Baurutitan
Baurutitan britoi
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago