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Jiangxititan

Say it: jyang-shee-TIE-tan

Name means: “Jiangxi titan”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksLate Cretaceous

Jiangxititan was a giant, long-necked plant-eater that lived in southern China near the end of the dinosaur age. It had a very flat neck and front back bones, and its neck spines were split into two wide branches.3 1 2

Lived

72 to 66 million years ago3

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Tankou Town, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, southern China3 1

Food

Plants3

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

cool stuff

Fun facts

Jiangxititan is known from only seven back bones (three neck and four chest vertebrae) with ribs attached.1

Its neck and front chest bones were very flat from top to bottom, which is unusual for sauropods.2

The neural spines on its neck and front back bones were deeply split into two branches, making a V shape.2

Jiangxititan lived alongside another sauropod called Gannansaurus, but Gannansaurus was from a much older lineage.2

Scientists disagree about Jiangxititan's family tree: some say it was a true titanosaur, others think it was a more primitive somphospondylan.1

AI-made picture of Jiangxititan — An AI-made picture of how Jiangxititan might have looked, made by a computer from what scientists know. It is a guess: the real animal may have looked different, and nobody knows its true colours.

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Most asked questions about Jiangxititan

?How big was Jiangxititan?

Nobody knows for sure because only seven back bones have been found. It was a giant sauropod, but its exact size is not known.1

?What did Jiangxititan eat?

It was a plant-eater, like all sauropods. It used its long neck to reach leaves and ferns.1

?When did Jiangxititan live?

It lived near the very end of the dinosaur age, during the Late Cretaceous period, about 72 to 66 million years ago.1

?Is Jiangxititan a dinosaur?

Yes, it is a dinosaur. It is a type of sauropod, a long-necked plant-eating dinosaur.1

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For dino experts

Scientific name: Jiangxititan
Named by: Mo et al. 20233
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Somphospondyli3
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Macronaria3
Age of the rocks: 72 to 66 million years (Maastrichtian)3
Countries: China3
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
Discovery: Jiangxititan was named in 2023 by paleontologists Mo, Fu, Yu and Xu based on fossils found near Tankou Town in Jiangxi Province, China.3 1
Still debated: Scientists are still debating whether Jiangxititan was a true titanosaur or a more primitive somphospondylan dinosaur.1

Where the facts come from

Jiangxititan (en.wikipedia.org)
A New Titanosaurian Sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, Southern China (ingentaconnect.com)
Jiangxititan in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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