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Paludititan

Say it: pa-LOO-dee-TIE-tan

Name means: “marsh titan”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksLate Cretaceous

Paludititan was a small, long-necked dinosaur that lived on an island in what is now Romania. It was a titanosaur, a kind of sauropod, and it shared its home with other dwarf dinosaurs.1

Lived

72 to 66 million years ago3

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Nălaț-Vad, Hațeg Basin, Romania1 3

Food

Plants3

Length

6 m1

estimate

Weight

1 tonnes1

Height

2 m2

shoulder height

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

How tall was it?

shoulder height

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 33 big dogs

as long as 6 dogs nose to tailas long as 33 bananas end to endas heavy as 200 watermelonsabout as tall as a door

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Paludititan lived on Hațeg Island, which was a real island during the Late Cretaceous. Many animals there were smaller than their relatives on the mainland.1

The first skeleton of Paludititan was found in 2002 by a Belgian-Romanian team. It was the most complete sauropod skeleton ever found in Romania at that time.1

Paludititan was about 6 metres long and weighed around 1 metric ton. That is small for a sauropod, about the size of a car.1

The fossil bones were found close together, so scientists think they belong to one single animal.1

Some tail vertebrae of Paludititan are flat on both ends, while others are cup-shaped on the front. This mix is unusual among titanosaurs.1

Paludititan shared its island home with other dwarf dinosaurs like Magyarosaurus, Telmatosaurus, and Zalmoxes. The top predator was a giant flying reptile called Hatzegopteryx.1

AI-made picture of Paludititan — An AI-made picture of how Paludititan 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 Paludititan

?How big was Paludititan?

Paludititan was about 6 metres (20 ft) long and weighed around 1 metric ton (1.1 short tons). That is small for a sauropod, about the size of a car.1

?What did Paludititan eat?

Paludititan was a sauropod, so it was a plant-eater. It likely ate ferns and other plants that grew on its island home.1

?When did Paludititan live?

Paludititan lived during the Late Cretaceous, about 70 to 66 million years ago. That was near the very end of the age of dinosaurs.1

?Was Paludititan a dinosaur?

Yes, Paludititan was a dinosaur. It was a titanosaurian sauropod, a kind of long-necked plant-eating dinosaur.1

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Scientific name: Paludititan
Named by: Csiki et al. 20103
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Eutitanosauria3
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria3
Age of the rocks: 72 to 66 million years (Maastrichtian)3
Rock formations: Râul Mare3
Countries: Romania3
Fossil records: 2 in the Paleobiology Database3
Discovery: Paludititan was named in 2010 by Zoltán Csiki, Vlad Codrea, Cătălin Jipa-Murzea, and Pascal Godefroit. The skeleton was found in a riverbed at Nălaț-Vad in Romania.1 3
Still debated: Scientists are not sure if Paludititan is a separate species or just a young Magyarosaurus. More fossils are needed to settle this debate.1

Where the facts come from

Paludititan (en.wikipedia.org)
Paludititan - piglix.com (piglix.com)
Paludititan in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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