Europatitan
| Europatitan | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria |
| Clade: | †Somphospondyli |
| Genus: | †Europatitan Fernández-Baldor et al, 2017 |
| Type species | |
| Europatitan eastwoodi Fernández-Baldor et al, 2017
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Europatitan (meaning "European giant") is a genus of somphospondylan sauropod from the Early Cretaceous Castrillo de la Reina Formation of Iberia, known from a relatively completely specimen discovered in the early 2000s. It contains a single species, E. eastwoodi, named after actor and director Clint Eastwood, whose film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was shot near the site.[1]
The holotype discovered at "El Oterillo II" in the Castrillo de la Reina Formation (Urbión Group) in 2003.
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