Lohuecotitan

Lo Hueco titan

• Lo Hueco · Spanish (place name) · the fossil locality in Cuenca, Spain
• titan · Greek · giant

The name combines "Lo Hueco", the fossil site near Fuentes in Cuenca Province, Spain, where the bones were found, with "Titan", the giants of Greek mythology. It refers to this large titanosaurian sauropod from the Lo Hueco locality. The only species, L. pandafilandi, is named after Pandafilando, a giant in Cervantes' Don Quixote.

Named by

Díez Díaz et al.

Year named

2016

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stages

Campanian – Maastrichtian

Found in

Lo Hueco site, Villalba de la Sierra Formation, Cuenca Province, Spain

A titanosaurian sauropod (lithostrotian). The exact stage range is given approximately, as the site is dated to around the Campanian–Maastrichtian boundary. Type species: Lohuecotitan pandafilandi.