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.
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.
== Discovery and naming == The Inawentu holotype specimen, MAU-Pv-LI-595, was discovered in sediments of the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Neuquén Group) near Rincón de los Sauces in Neuquén Province, Argentina. The specimen consists of a partial articulated skeleton, including a nearly complete skull, all of the vertebrae from the atlas to the end of the sacrum (comprising twelve cervical, ten dorsal, and six sacral vertebrae), and both ilia. MAU-Pv-LI-595 is one of the few known titanosaur specimens to preserve a complete neck.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).