Paludititan

Paludititan
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian
Vertebra.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Neosauropoda
Clade: Titanosauria
Genus: Paludititan
Csiki et al., 2010
Species:  P. nalatzensis
Binomial name
Paludititan nalatzensis
Csiki et al., 2010

Paludititan is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur which existed in what is now Haţeg Basin, Romania during the late Cretaceous period.[1] The type species is Paludititan nalatzensis, after its finding place Nǎlaţ-Vad. The type species was determined and described by Zoltán Csiki, Vlad Codrea, Cǎtǎlin Jipa-Murzea and Pascal Godefroit in 2010.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Zoltán Csiki, Vlad Codrea, Cǎtǎlin Jipa-Murzea and Pascal Godefroit (2010). "A partial titanosaur (Sauropoda, Dinosauria) skeleton from the Maastrichtian of Nǎlaţ-Vad, Haţeg Basin, Romania". Neus Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaeontologie, Abhandlungen 258 (3): 297–324. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0098.
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