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long-neck giant
Garrigatitan
Say it like this: “GARR-ih-guh-TIE-tan”
Garrigatitan meridionalis
Garrigatitan ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in France.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2021 · Díez Díaz, V.; Garcia, G.; Pereda-Suberbiola, X.; Jentgen-Ceschino, B.; Stein, K.; Godefroit, P.; Valentin, X.
- Hip height
- 2.7 m · 9 ft
- Length
- 4–16 m · 13–52 ft
- Weight
- 2–2.5 tonnes
- Found in
- France · Argiles et Grès à Reptiles
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Lirainosaurinae
The story in short
In 2021, V. Díez Díaz and colleagues published the name Garrigatitan. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from France, including the Argiles et Grès à Reptiles Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Garrigatitan at a length near 4–16 m, hips about 2.7 m high, and a body mass around 2–2.5 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Lirainosaurinae, among the sauropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Ampelosaurus
Ampelosaurus atacis
Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago
Atsinganosaurus
Atsinganosaurus velauciensis
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Lirainosaurus
Lirainosaurus astibiae
Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago