Inawentu Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Reconstructed skeleton | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Clade: | †Macronaria |
Clade: | †Titanosauria |
Clade: | †Eutitanosauria |
Genus: | †Inawentu Filippi et al., 2023 |
Species: | †I. oslatus
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Binomial name | |
†Inawentu oslatus Filippi et al., 2023
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Inawentu (meaning "imitator") is an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation of Argentina. The genus contains a single species, I. oslatus, known from a partial articulated skeleton including the skull. The square-shaped jaw of Inawentu demonstrates convergent characteristics with rebbachisaurids.[1]