Tyrannotitan

Tyrannotitan
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous (Albian), 113–100.5 Ma
Reconstructed skeleton in Queensland Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Family: Carcharodontosauridae
Tribe: Giganotosaurini
Genus: Tyrannotitan
Novas et al., 2005
Type species
Tyrannotitan chubutensis
Novas et al., 2005

Tyrannotitan (/tɪˌrænəˈttən/; lit.'tyrant titan') is a genus of large theropod dinosaur belonging to the carcharodontosaurid family. It is known from a single species, T. chubutensis, which lived during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina. Tyrannotitan is considered a close relative of other giant carcharodontosaurids from Gondwana, such as Carcharodontosaurus, but it shares an especially close relationship with the South American carcharodontosaurids Giganotosaurus and Mapusaurus. Tyrannotitan is known from a few specimens, however none of them are very complete.


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