
Wintonotitan (meaning "Winton titan") is a genus of titanosauriform dinosaur from the Cenomanian-aged (Late Cretaceous) Winton Formation of Australia. It is known from partial postcranial remains.
Wintonotitan (meaning "Winton titan") is a genus of titanosauriform dinosaur from the Cenomanian-aged (Late Cretaceous) Winton Formation of Australia. It is known from partial postcranial remains.
== Description and history == thumb|left|Life restoration Fossils that are now known under the name Wintonotitan were first found in 1974 by Keith Watts. At the time, the specimens were assigned to an Austrosaurus sp., Austrosaurus then being the only named Australian Cretaceous sauropod genus. These fossils, catalogued as QMF 7292, consisted of a left shoulder blade, much of the forelimbs, a number of back, hip, and tail vertebrae, part of the right hip, ribs, chevrons, and unidentifiable fragments. QMF 7292 was established as the type specimen of Wintonotitan in 2009 by Scott Hocknull and colleagues. Hocknull suggested that Austrosaurus mckillopi differed only slightly from the QMF 7292, the holotype of Wintonotitan wattsii, and should be considered a nomen dubium. The type species is W. wattsi, honoring the original discoverer.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).