Titanomachya
Titanomachya was a small titanosaur that lived in what is now Patagonia, Argentina, about 67 million years ago. Even though it was a giant compared to you, it was one of the smallest titanosaurs ever found, about the size of a cow!1
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Titanomachya is one of the smallest titanosaurs ever found, weighing only 5 to 10 tons, while some other titanosaurs weighed over 70 tons.1
Its name comes from the Titanomachy, the battle between the Olympian gods and the Titans in Greek mythology.1
This dinosaur lived near the end of the Cretaceous Period, about 67 million years ago, just before the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.1
Titanomachya was found in the La Colonia Formation in central Patagonia, where no sauropod fossils had been found before.1
Its ankle bone (astragalus) has a shape that is halfway between two groups of titanosaurs: Colossosauria and Saltasauroidea.2
The area where Titanomachya lived was a wet, marshy place with coastal lagoons and estuaries, home to predators like Carnotaurus.1
Most asked questions about Titanomachya
?How long was Titanomachya?
About 6 metres (20 feet) long, which is roughly the length of a minibus.31
?What did Titanomachya eat?
It was a herbivore, meaning it ate plants. As a long-necked sauropod, it likely fed on leaves and other vegetation.13
?What other dinosaurs lived with Titanomachya?
It shared its habitat with the meat-eating dinosaurs Carnotaurus and Koleken, as well as duck-billed hadrosaurs and armored ankylosaurs.3
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- Scientific name
- Titanomachya
- Named by
- Pérez-Moreno et al. 20244
- Group
- Long-necks
- Family / clade
- Saltasauroidea4
- Classification
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria4
- Age of the rocks
- 72 to 66 million years (Maastrichtian)4
- Rock formations
- La Colonia4
- Countries
- Argentina4
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
- Discovery
- Titanomachya was named in 2024 by paleontologists Alejandro Pérez-Moreno, Leonardo Salgado, José L. Carballido, Alejandro Otero, and Diego Pol. They found its bones in the La Colonia Formation of Chubut Province, Argentina.41
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure why Titanomachya was so small. It might be because it lived on a shrinking land area as the Atlantic Ocean covered parts of Patagonia, or because of changes in climate and ecosystems.1
Where the facts come from
- New fossils reveal one of the smallest titanosaurs ever found | National Geographic (nationalgeographic.com)
- A new titanosaur from the La Colonia Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Chubut Province, Argentina: Historical Biology: Vol 37, No 4 (tandfonline.com)
- Titanomachya (en.wikipedia.org)
- Titanomachya in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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