Punatitan

Puna titan

• Puna · Quechua/Spanish · the high Andean plateau region (the Puna)
• Titan · Greek · giant, one of the Titans of Greek myth

The name combines "Puna", the name of the high-altitude Andean plateau region of northwestern Argentina, with "Titan", the giants of Greek mythology often used for titanosaurian sauropods. It refers to the giant sauropod's origin in the Puna/Andean region of northwest Argentina. The type species is Punatitan coughlini.

Named by

Hechenleitner et al.

Year named

2020

Period

Late Cretaceous

Found in

Ciénaga del Río Huaco Formation, La Rioja Province, Argentina

A titanosaurian sauropod. The exact stage of the fossils is not given here because I am not certain of it. The etymology wording is my best understanding rather than a verbatim quote from the original paper.