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Gondwanatitan faustoi

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Gondwanatitan faustoi was named by Kellner and Azevedo (1999). Its type specimen is MN 4111-V and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sítio Myzobuchi, Álvares Machado (mudstone), which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian terrestrial mudstone/sandstone in the Adamantina Formation of Brazil.

It was recombined as Aeolosaurus faustoi by Santucci and Bertini (2001).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1999Gondwanatitan faustoi Kellner and Azevedo p. 115 figs. 3-23
2001Aeolosaurus faustoi Santucci and Bertini p. 308
2002Gondwanatitan faustoi Salgado and García p. 215
2003Gondwanatitan faustoi Marinho et al. p. 322
2003Gondwanatitan faustoi de Almeida et al. p. 36
2004Gondwanatitan faustoi Franco-Rosas et al. p. 332
2004Gondwanatitan faustoi Upchurch et al. p. 269
2004Gondwanatitan faustoi de Almeida et al. p. 242
2005Gondwanatitan faustoi Campos et al. p. 565
2005Gondwanatitan faustoi Candeiro p. 28
2005Gondwanatitan faustoi Kellner et al. p. 536
2006Gondwanatitan faustoi Candeiro et al. pp. 932-933
2006Gondwanatitan faustoi Kellner et al. p. 2
2006Gondwanatitan faustoi Santucci and Bertini p. 345
2007Gondwanatitan faustoi Calvo et al. p. 530
2007Gondwanatitan faustoi Casal et al. p. 57
2007Gondwanatitan faustoi Sánchez-Hernández et al. p. 199
2008Gondwanatitan faustoi Lopes and Buchmann p. 71
2008Gondwanatitan faustoi Salgado and Carvalho p. 899
2009Gondwanatitan faustoi González Riga et al. p. 141
2010Gondwanatitan faustoi Calvo and Porfiri p. 106
2010Gondwanatitan faustoi Candeiro p. 245
2010Gondwanatitan faustoi Casal and Ibiricu p. 250
2011Gondwanatitan faustoi Bittencourt and Langer p. 33
2011Gondwanatitan faustoi Filippi et al. p. 6
2011Gondwanatitan faustoi Marinho and Iori p. 340
2011Gondwanatitan faustoi Martinelli et al. p. 35
2011Gondwanatitan faustoi Navarrete et al. p. 10
2012Gondwanatitan faustoi Mannion and Otero p. 634
2012Gondwanatitan faustoi Soto et al. p. 74
2014Gondwanatitan faustoi Mocho et al.
2015Gondwanatitan faustoi Filippi p. 25
2015Gondwanatitan faustoi de Jesus Faria et al. p. 155
2017Gondwanatitan faustoi Gorscak et al. p. 13
2017Gondwanatitan faustoi Silva Junior et al. p. 24
2022Gondwanatitan faustoi Navarro et al. p. 339

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
RankNameAuthor
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropoda()
—Gravisauria
—Eusauropoda
—Neosauropoda
—Macronaria
—Titanosauriformes
—Titanosauria
—Colossosauria
—Aeolosaurini
genusGondwanatitan
speciesfaustoi

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.

†Gondwanatitan faustoi Kellner and Azevedo 1999
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteinfrao
Entire body: yesinfrao
Adult length: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult width: 10 to < 100infrao
Adult height: 10 to < 100infrao
Thickness: thickinfrao
Architecture: compact or denseinfrao
Form: sphericalinfrao
Ontogeny: accretion, modification of partsinfrao
Grouping: gregariousinfrao
Environment: terrestrialinfrao
Locomotion: actively mobileinfrao
Life habit: ground dwellinginfrao
Diet: herbivoreinfrao
Reproduction: oviparousinfrao
Dispersal: direct/internalinfrao
Dispersal 2: mobileinfrao
Created: 2004-12-14 12:49:10
Modified: 2004-12-14 14:49:10
Source: infrao = infraorder
Reference: Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.50000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian83.5 - 66.0Brazil (São Paulo) Titanosauridae indet. (type locality: 51955)