Europatitan
| Europatitan | |
|---|---|
| Scientific 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 | |
Europatitan (meaning "European giant") is a genus of somphospondylan sauropod from the Early Cretaceous Castrillo de la Reina Formation 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.
The holotype discovered at "El Oterillo II" in the Castrillo de la Reina Formation (Urbión Group) in 2003.
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