Ninjatitan

ninja titan

• Ninja · Japanese · ninja (a stealthy covert warrior)
• titan · Greek · Titan, a giant of Greek mythology

The name combines the Japanese word "ninja" with "titan", the giants of Greek mythology, a common way of naming large sauropods. The type species is Ninjatitan zapatai. I'm not certain of the exact reason the authors chose "ninja", so I haven't stated one.

Year named

2021

Period

Early Cretaceous

Found in

Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argentina

A titanosaurian sauropod from Argentina. I'm unsure of the authorship, the exact formation and the geologic stages, so those fields are left blank or general.