- Name
- Gondwanatitan faustoi
- Authority
- Kellner & Azevedo, 1999
- Meaning of generic name
- "Gondwana titan".
- Meaning of specific name
- In honor of Dr. Fausto L. de Souza Cunha, who collected the specimen.
[Fausto = Faustus, the correct genitive is Fausti and neither **Faustusi nor **Faustoi] - Size
- [not given]
- Remains
- Holotype (MN 4111-V): Partial skeleton composed of 2 partial cervicals, 7 dorsals, 6 sacrals, 24 caudals, 4 unidentified vertebrae, proximal part of left scapula, left ilium, partial pubs, ischia, humeri, tibiae, ribs and several unidentified fragments.
- Age and Distribution
- Horizon: Adamantina formation. Bauru Group. Upper Cretaceous (Turonian-Santonian)
Locality: São Paolo State, Brazil. - Classification
- Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Macronaria Titanosauriformes Titanosauria Saltasauridae Aelosaurini
- Further Reading
- A. W. A. Kellner and S. A. K. d. Azevedo. 1999. A new sauropod dinosaur (Titanosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. In Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:111-142.
- Synonyms
- Aeolosaurus faustoi (Kellner & Azevedo, 1999)
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Gondwanatitan faustoi
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