Tiamat valdecii
| Tiamat valdecii Temporal range: 'mid'-Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria |
| Clade: | †Titanosauria |
| Genus: | †Tiamat Pereira et al., 2024 |
| Species: | †T. valdecii
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| †Tiamat valdecii Pereira et al., 2024
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Tiamat (after the
caudal vertebrae
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Discovery and naming
The Tiamat
caudal vertebrae from the beginning and middle of the tail, deposited in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.[1] An isolated titanosaur osteoderm described in 2018, specimen UFRJ-DG 549-R, was tentatively suggested to also have come from Tiamat.[2]
In 2024, Pereira et al.
type locality.[1]
Tiamat represents the first dinosaur to be named from the Potiguar Basin of Brazil, although the indeterminate remains of other dinosaurs have been found.[1]
Classification
In their
sister taxon to the similarly-aged Andesaurus. Their results are displayed in the cladogram
below:
| Titanosauria |
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References
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- ISSN 1477-2019.