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Bustingorrytitan

Say it: bus-ting-GOR-ee-TIE-tan

Name means: “Bustingorry's titan”4

Ate: PlantsLong-necksEarly Cretaceous

Bustingorrytitan was a gigantic long-necked dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina. It was one of the heaviest dinosaurs ever found, weighing as much as a dozen elephants!1

Lived

110 to 106 million years ago4

Early Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argentina1

Food

Plants4

Weight

50.069 tonnes to 84.525 tonnes1

estimated body mass of 67.297 metric tons with a standard error of ±17.228

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 14 elephants

as heavy as 17000 watermelons

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Fun facts

Bustingorrytitan lived about 100 million years ago during the early Late Cretaceous.1

Its fossils were found at the 'Bustingorry II' site, which is in the Huincul Formation.1

Bustingorrytitan is known from four specimens, including a relatively complete skeleton.1

This dinosaur had unique bones in its back, with a deep socket-like fossa on the vertebrae.1

Bustingorrytitan is a lithostrotian, a group of titanosaurs that includes the saltasaurids.1

It shared its home with other giant sauropods like Argentinosaurus and Chucarosaurus.1

The name Bustingorrytitan honors the Bustingorry family, who owned the land where the fossils were found.1

AI-made picture of Bustingorrytitan — An AI-made picture of how Bustingorrytitan might have looked, made by a computer from what scientists know. It is a guess: the real animal may have looked different, and nobody knows its true colours.

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Most asked questions about Bustingorrytitan

?How big was Bustingorrytitan?

It weighed about 67.3 tonnes, which is as heavy as about 10 African elephants. It was one of the largest titanosaurs ever found.2 1

?When did Bustingorrytitan live?

It lived about 100 million years ago, during the early Late Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian).2 3

?Where was Bustingorrytitan found?

Its fossils were discovered at the 'Bustingorry II' site in Neuquén Province, Argentina, in the Huincul Formation.2 3

?What did Bustingorrytitan eat?

It was a plant-eater, like all sauropods. It used its long neck to reach leaves high in the trees.2

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Scientific name: Bustingorrytitan
Named by: Simón and Salgado 20234
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Lithostrotia4
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria4
Age of the rocks: 110 to 106 million years (Albian)4
Rock formations: Huincul4
Countries: Argentina4
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery: Bustingorrytitan was named by M. E. Simón and L. Salgado in 2023 based on fossils from the Huincul Formation in Neuquén Province, Argentina.4
Still debated: Scientists are still debating exactly how many times giant body size evolved in titanosaurs, and Bustingorrytitan helps show that gigantism happened multiple times.1

Where the facts come from

A new gigantic titanosaurian sauropod from the early Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Neuquén Province, Argentina) (app.pan.pl)
Bustingorrytitan (en.wikipedia.org)
app010862023 (app.pan.pl)
Bustingorrytitan in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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