Europatitan

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Europatitan
Temporal range:
Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Clade: Macronaria
Clade: Somphospondyli
Genus: Europatitan
Fernández-Baldor et al, 2017
Type species
Europatitan eastwoodi
Fernández-Baldor et al, 2017
Quarry map of the partial holotype specimen
Europatitan reconstruction

Europatitan (meaning "European giant") is a genus of

Iberia, known from a relatively completely specimen discovered in the early 2000s. It contains a single species, E. eastwoodi, named after actor and director Clint Eastwood, whose film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was shot near the site.[1]

The holotype discovered at "El Oterillo II" in the Castrillo de la Reina Formation (Urbión Group) in 2003.

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