Punatitan coughlini
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Dinosaur: Punatitan coughlini

Length*: | 9 m | 29.5 ft |
Weight*: | 2 t | 4,409 lb |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Late Campanian-Maastrichtian
Years: 83.6–66 Ma
Details
Status: valid
Author: Hechenleitner et al.
Year: 2020
Distribution
Area: South America
Country: Argentina
Region: La Rioja
Formation: Ciénaga del Río Huaco
Locations
Sources
Material: Partial skeleton (mostly vertebrae).
References: E. Martín Hechenleitner, Léa Leuzinger, Agustín G. Martinelli, Sebastián Rocher, Lucas E. Fiorelli, Jeremías R. A. Taborda & Leonardo Salgado (2020). Two Late Cretaceous sauropods reveal titanosaurian dispersal across South America.