Tyrannotitan Temporal range: Early Cretaceous (Albian),
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Reconstructed skeleton in Queensland Museum | |
Scientific 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
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Tyrannotitan (/tɪˌrænəˈtaɪtən/; 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.