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Garrigatitan meridionalis
Taxonomy
Garrigatitan meridionalis was named by Díez Díaz et al. (2021). Its type specimen is MMS/VBN.09.170, a set of postcrania (sacrum with part of the left ilium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Fox-Amphoux-La Bastide Neuve, which is in a Campanian fluvial claystone in France. It is the type species of Garrigatitan.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2021 | Garrigatitan meridionalis Díez Díaz et al. p. 3001 figs. 2-11 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Garrigatitan meridionalis Díez Díaz et al. 2021
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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V. Díez Díaz et al. 2021 | Member of Titanosauria, having the following autapomorphies (marked with an asterisk), as well as a unique combination of characters not seen in other Late Cretaceous European titanosaurs: medium sized titanosaur (sub/adults with a body length of ca. 4–6 metres and body mass of ca. 2–2.5 tonnes, adults could reach a body length between 12 and 16 metres) with (1) posterior cervical vertebrae with a wide neural canal, (2) posterior cervical vertebrae with an anteroposteriorly compressed and paddle-shaped neural spine (not wider than the centrum), (3) posterior cervical vertebral postzygapophyses widely separated and with laterally oriented articular surfaces, (4) hourglass-shaped humeri (proximal and distal thirds of almost the same transversal width) in anterior and posterior views*, (5) ilium with a broad rounded hollow slightly posterior to the base of the pubic peduncle*, (6) proximolateral margin of the femur only slightly medially deflected*. |
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Source: infrao = infraorder | |||||
Reference: Marsh 1875 |
Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Campanian | France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) | Garrigatitan meridionalis (type locality: 28454) |