| Aerotitan Temporal range: Maastrichtian
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| Restoration of Aerotitan as an azhdarchid, following the original interpretation | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Family: | †Azhdarchidae |
| Genus: | †Aerotitan Novas et al. 2012 |
| Species: | †A. sudamericanus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Aerotitan sudamericanus Novas et al. 2012
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Aerotitan is a genus of large azhdarchid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous period (Maastrichtian stage) of what is now the Allen Formation of the Neuquén Basin in northern Patagonia, Argentina.[1]
- ^ Novas, F. E.; Kundrát, M.; Agnolín, F. L.; Ezcurra, M. D.; Ahlberg, P. E.; Iasi, M. P.; Arriagada, A.; Chafrat, P. (2012). "A New Large Pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (6): 1447–1452. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32.1447N. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.703979. hdl:11336/98097. JSTOR 23361061. S2CID 84340520.