Europatitan
Europatitan is an extinct genus of somphospondylan sauropod from the Early Cretaceous Castrillo de la Reina Formation of Iberia, known from a relatively complete specimen discovered in the early 2000s. It contains a single species: the type species, Europatitan eastwoodi.
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Europatitan is an extinct genus of somphospondylan sauropod from the Early Cretaceous Castrillo de la Reina Formation of Iberia, known from a relatively complete specimen discovered in the early 2000s. It contains a single species: the type species, Europatitan eastwoodi.
==Discovery and naming== thumb|left|A diagram of where the bones of Europatitan were found when excavated Sauropod remains were first found at a locality called El Oterillo II, which is part of the Castrillo de la Reina Formation in the province of Burgos in Spain in 2003. These remains would be excavated between 2004-2006. The fossils, although not initially described, we reported as those of a titanosauriform in 2009. They were given the designations MDS-OTII.1 to NDS-OTII.32 and have been stored at the Dinosaur Museum of Salas de los Infantes.