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Lohuecotitan

Say it: lo-WEH-ko-TYE-tan

Name means: “Titan from Lo Hueco, named after the fossil site and the giants of Greek mythology”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksLate Cretaceous

Lohuecotitan was a huge, long-necked plant eater that stomped around Spain about 70 million years ago. It was one of the most complete titanosaur skeletons ever found in Europe, so scientists learned a lot from it.1

Lived

84 to 66 million years ago4

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Lo Hueco, Cuenca, Spain4 1

Food

Plants4

Length

15 to 20 m2

estimate

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

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How long was it?

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Fun facts

Lohuecotitan is known from a partial skeleton with bones still connected or close together, which is rare for sauropods.1

Its backbone had special ridges and bumps that are unique to this dinosaur, helping scientists tell it apart from other titanosaurs.1

The tail vertebrae had a cross-section shaped like a Greek cross, a very unusual feature.1

It lived on an island called Ibero-Armorica, which is now Spain and France, during the Late Cretaceous.1

The fossil site where it was found, Lo Hueco, also had fish, turtles, crocodiles, and other dinosaurs.1

Lohuecotitan is the most complete titanosaur skeleton ever found in Europe from the Late Cretaceous.1

AI-made picture of Lohuecotitan — An AI-made picture of how Lohuecotitan 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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?How big was Lohuecotitan?

Scientists are not sure of its exact size because only a partial skeleton has been found, but it was a large, long-necked plant eater, like other titanosaurs.3 1

?What did Lohuecotitan eat?

It was a plant eater, eating leaves and other vegetation, as all titanosaurs were herbivores.3 1

?When did Lohuecotitan live?

It lived about 70 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period, in what is now Spain.3 1

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Scientific name: Lohuecotitan
Named by: Díez Díaz et al. 20164
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Eutitanosauria4
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria4
Age of the rocks: 84 to 66 million years (Campanian / Maastrichtian)4
Rock formations: Villalba de la Sierra4
Countries: Spain4
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery: The skeleton was found in 2007 at Lo Hueco in Spain, and scientists named it Lohuecotitan pandafilandi in 2016.1
Still debated: Scientists are still debating exactly how Lohuecotitan is related to other European titanosaurs and how it evolved.1

Where the facts come from

A new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain) (sciencedirect.com)
UNED | COMUNICACIÓN Lohuecotitan pandafilandi (portal.uned.es)
Lohuecotitan (Wikipedia) (Wikipedia)
Lohuecotitan in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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