Bonatitan

Bonatitan
Temporal range: Cretaceous, Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder: Sauropoda
Family: Saltasauridae
Genus: Bonatitan
Species: B. reigi
Binomial name
Bonatitan reigi
Martinelli & Forasiepi, 2004

Bonatitan is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur from Argentina. It lived during the Late Cretaceous. The type species is Bonatitan reigi, first described by Martinelli and Forasiepi in 2004. The specific epithet honours Osvaldo Reig. The description is based on a partial skeleton, including a braincase and caudal vertebrae.

It was named after the famous Argentine paleontologist José Fernando Bonaparte.

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