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long-neck giant
Lohuecotitan
Say it like this: “loh-HWAY-co-TIE-tuhn”
Lohuecotitan pandafilandi
Lohuecotitan ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Spain.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian · Maastrichtian) · roughly 83.6 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 2016 · Díez Díaz, V.; Mocho, P.; Páramo, A.; Escaso, F.; Marcos-Fernández, F.; Sanz, J. L.; Ortega, F.
- Hip height
- 2 m · 7 ft
- Length
- 11 m · 36 ft
- Weight
- 3 tonnes
- Found in
- Spain · Villalba de la Sierra
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Lithostrotia
The story in short
In 2016, V. Díez Díaz and colleagues published the name Lohuecotitan. 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 Spain, including the Villalba de la Sierra Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Lohuecotitan at a length near 11 m, hips about 2 m high, and a body mass around 3 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Lithostrotia, among the sauropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Atacamatitan
Atacamatitan chilensis
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Maastrichtian) · roughly 100.5 to 66 million years ago
Dreadnoughtus
Dreadnoughtus schrani
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Elaltitan
Elaltitan lilloi
Late Cretaceous (Coniacian) · roughly 89.8 to 85.7 million years ago