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Gandititan

Say it: GAN-dee-TIE-tan

Name means: “Gan Earth giant, honoring geological studies in Ganzhou, China”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksLate Cretaceous

Gandititan was a huge, long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now southern China. It had a very long tail with special hollow bones that gave it its name.1

Lived

100 to 90 million years ago3

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Zhoutian Formation, Jiangxi Province, southern China1 3

Food

Plants3

Length

14 m1

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When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

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How long was it?

as long as 3 cars parked in a rowas long as 78 bananas end to end

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Fun facts

Gandititan is known from a partial skeleton that includes six neck bones, two back bones, six hip bones, and 17 tail bones.1

Its name means 'cavity tail' because the tail bones had deep hollows and slit-like holes on their undersides.1

Gandititan was a titanosaur, a group of sauropods that lived all over the world during the Late Cretaceous.1

Scientists think Gandititan was about 14 meters (46 feet) long, as long as a school bus.1

The front tail bones of Gandititan had split spines, which is unusual and helps scientists tell it apart from other dinosaurs.2

Gandititan lived about 100 to 90 million years ago, during the Cenomanian and Turonian ages of the Late Cretaceous.3

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Scientific name: Gandititan
Named by: Han et al. 20243
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Titanosauria3
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria3
Age of the rocks: 100 to 90 million years (Cenomanian / Turonian)3
Rock formations: Zhoutian3
Countries: China3
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
Discovery: Gandititan was named in 2024 by Han and colleagues based on a partial skeleton found in Datangkeng, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, China.1 3
Still debated: Scientists are still debating exactly how Gandititan is related to other titanosaurs, especially those from South America.2

Where the facts come from

Gandititan (en.wikipedia.org)
A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China (exa.ai)
Gandititan in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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