Lusotitan

Lusitanian (Portuguese) titan

• Luso (from Lusitania) · Latin · Lusitania, the Roman name for the region of Portugal
• titan · Greek · giant

Lusotitan combines "Luso," from Lusitania, the Roman name for the region that is now Portugal, with "titan," the giant gods of Greek myth. It means "Portuguese giant" and refers to the huge sauropod's homeland. The species was first described in 1957 as Brachiosaurus atalaiensis, and was moved to its own genus in 2003.

Named by

Antunes and Mateus

Year named

2003

Period

Late Jurassic

Stages

Kimmeridgian – Tithonian

Found in

Lourinhã Formation, near Atalaia, Portugal

Valid genus of brachiosaurid sauropod. The type species is Lusotitan atalaiensis, originally named Brachiosaurus atalaiensis by Lapparent and Zbyszewski in 1957.