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Bustingorrytitan shiva

Bustingorrytitan is derived from "Bustingorry" (for local farmer Manuel Bustingorry, owner of the land in the surroundings of Villa El Chocón where the remains were found, who supported the execution of the fieldworks) and the Greek "titan" (a giant primordial deitiy from Greek mythology).
The species epithet, shiva, is named for the supreme deity of Shivaism, a branch of Hinduism, who destroys and rebuilds the Universe, alluding to the faunal turnover (the replacement of one species with another in an ecosystem over time, due to environmental changes or mass extinction events) that occured towards the end of the "Middle" Cretaceous. ZooBank registry: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:F140E7D1-D8BC-47A8-BC49-423E 9763A7AE The remains of Bustingorrytitan were discovered at "Bustingorry site II" in the Huincul Formation, Neuquén Province, Argentina, by Manuel Bustingorry in 2000. They were excavated by a María Edith Simón-led team from the Ernesto Bachmann Paleontological Museum in 2001.
The holotype (MMCH-Pv 59/1-40) is a partial skeleton, including right lower jaw, a tooth fragment, one back vertebra, four tail vertebrae, two chevrons, both shoulder girdles, both sternal plates, a partial pelvis, two almost complete arms, five hand bones, a right thigh, a right shin, both calf bones, a left ankle, three foot bones, and three toe bones. At least three more specimens were found in the same quarry, including a paratype that was smaller than the holotype (MMCH-Pv 60/1–6: one neck vertebra, one tail vertebra, a lower arm bone, a hand bone, a right thigh, and a left shin), a referred specimen that was smaller than the paratype (MMCH-Pv 61/1: a left thigh), and a second referred specimen that was bigger than the holotype (MMCH-Pv 62/1-3: a right thigh, left shin and left ankle).