Garumbatitan

Garumba titan

• Garumba · Pre-Roman/Iberian (place name) · an old name tied to the Morella area of eastern Spain, where the fossils were found
• titan · Greek · giant

The name combines "Garumba", a historical name associated with the Morella region of Castellón, Spain, with the Greek "titan", a giant of myth often used for large sauropods. It therefore means roughly "titan from the Garumba (Morella) area". The type species is Garumbatitan morellensis.

Named by

Royo-Torres et al.

Year named

2021

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Barremian

Found in

Arcillas de Morella Formation, Morella, Castellón, Spain

A titanosauriform sauropod known from multiple partial skeletons. The exact origin of "Garumba" is given from memory, so that detail is uncertain.