Europatitan
Europatitan was a giant, long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now Spain about 124 million years ago. It was one of the biggest dinosaurs in Europe at the time, measuring longer than a tennis court!2
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Europatitan is named after Europe and Clint Eastwood. The species name 'eastwoodi' honors the actor because the movie 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' was partly filmed near the dig site.1
Europatitan lived alongside another sauropod called Demandasaurus in the same ancient floodplain in Spain.1
Europatitan had air-filled bones (like a bird) and special hollows in its backbones that made its skeleton lighter for its huge size.1
This dinosaur had a long neck, but its neck bones had very small air holes (pleurocoels) compared to other sauropods.1
Scientists found Europatitan in a place called El Oterillo II, just 2.5 km from the village of Barbadillo del Mercado in northern Spain.1
Most asked questions about Europatitan
?How big was Europatitan?
Scientists estimate it was about 20 to 21.4 metres long and weighed 22 to 25 tonnes. That is longer than a tennis court.2
?What did Europatitan eat?
It was a plant-eater, or herbivore. It used its long neck to reach leaves high up in trees.3
?When did Europatitan live?
It lived about 124 to 120 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous period.2
?Where was Europatitan found?
Its fossils were discovered in Spain, at a site called El Oterillo II near the village of Barbadillo del Mercado.2
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Myth buster
Myth: Europatitan might have lived in the water to support its heavy body.
Truth: Europatitan was a land dinosaur with strong leg bones and air-filled bones, living on dry floodplains.1
For dino experts
- Scientific name
- Europatitan
- Named by
- Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. 20173
- Group
- Long-necks
- Family / clade
- Somphospondyli3
- Classification
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Macronaria3
- Age of the rocks
- 126 to 120 million years (Barremian / Aptian)3
- Rock formations
- Castrillo de la Reina3
- Countries
- Spain3
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
- Discovery
- Europatitan was named in 2017 by Spanish paleontologist Fidel Torcida Fernández-Baldor and his team. The fossils were dug up from the Castrillo de la Reina Formation in northern Spain in the 2000s.31
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure if Europatitan is a direct relative of sauropods from Africa or if it is part of a relict European group.1
Where the facts come from
- Europatitan eastwoodi, a new sauropod from the lower ... - PMC (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Europatitan (en.wikipedia.org)
- Europatitan in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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