Garrigatitan

garrigue (scrubland) titan

• garrigue · French/Occitan · Mediterranean scrubland of southern France
• titan · Greek · giant (mythological Titan)

The name combines "garrigue", the term for the scrubby Mediterranean limestone shrubland of southern France, with the Greek "Titan", a giant of mythology. It refers to the garrigue landscape of Provence where the fossils were found, and to the animal's enormous size as a titanosaurian sauropod.

Period

Late Cretaceous

Found in

Provence, southern France

A titanosaurian sauropod; the type species is Garrigatitan meridionalis. I am not certain of the authorship, year or exact stage, so those fields are left blank.