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Kaijutitan Kaijutitan maui Filippi et al. 2019
/kaɪdʒˈuːɾɪtən/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Coniacian) · 89.8–85.7 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
Argentina
Region
Neuquén
Formation
Sierra Barrosa
Dig sites
1
distinct collections
Overview
Kaijutitan maui is a sauropodomorph dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 89.8–85.7 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Neuquén, Argentina. It was named by Filippi et al. 2019. The species is represented by 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~5%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Kaijutitan maui sits in deep time
Kaijutitan
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Kaijutitan maui's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.