Gobititan
Gobititan was a huge, long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous. It had a very long tail made of many bones, more than most of its giant relatives.1
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Gobititan had 41 tail vertebrae, which is a lot for a sauropod. More advanced titanosaurs had fewer than 35.1
Its name comes from the Gobi Desert and the Titans of Greek mythology, meaning 'Gobi titan'.1
The species name 'shenzhouensis' comes from 'Shenzhou', an ancient name for China.1
Gobititan still had a fifth toe on its foot, a primitive feature that other titanosaurs lost.1
The only known fossil is a partial skeleton including 41 tail bones and part of a hind leg.1
Scientists think Gobititan lived about 123 to 113 million years ago, during the Aptian stage.1
Gobititan was originally thought to be a basal titanosaur, but now many scientists consider it a titanosauriform.1
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About 20 metres (66 feet) long and weighed around 20 metric tons (22 short tons). That is roughly as long as two school buses.1
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- Scientific name
- Gobititan
- Named by
- You et al. 20033
- Group
- Long-necks
- Family / clade
- Euhelopodidae3
- Classification
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Macronaria3
- Age of the rocks
- 113 to 110 million years (Albian)3
- Rock formations
- Zhonggou3
- Countries
- China3
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
- Discovery
- Gobititan was named in 2003 by You, Tang and Luo based on a partial skeleton found in the summer of 1999 in the Gongpoquan Basin, Gansu, China.1
- Still debated
- Scientists still debate whether Gobititan was a true titanosaur or a more primitive titanosauriform.1
Where the facts come from
- Gobititan (en.wikipedia.org)
- Gobititan shenzhouensis - Beschreibung, Dinodata.de (dinodata.de)
- Gobititan in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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