Duriatitan

Dorset titan

• Duria · Latinised place name · Dorset, the English county where the fossil was found
• titan · Greek · giant (the Titans of Greek myth)

The name combines a Latinised form of Dorset, the county in southern England where the bones were found, with "titan", the giant gods of Greek myth. It refers to a large sauropod from the Dorset coast. The only species, D. humerocristatus, was first described in 1874 as a species of Cetiosaurus. It was moved to its own genus in 2010.

Named by

Barrett, Benson and Upchurch

Year named

2010

Period

Late Jurassic

Stage

Kimmeridgian

Found in

Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Dorset, England, UK

A sauropod dinosaur known from fragmentary remains, mainly a humerus. The type species, Duriatitan humerocristatus, was originally named Cetiosaurus humerocristatus by Hulke in 1874. Its exact position within Sauropoda is uncertain.