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Liaoningotitan

Say it: lee-ow-NING-oh-TIE-tan

Name means: “Liaoning giant”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksEarly Cretaceous

Liaoningotitan was a long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now China. It walked on four sturdy legs and used its spoon-shaped teeth to strip leaves from trees.1

Lived

126 to 120 million years ago3

Early Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Xiaobeigoucun, Beipiao, Liaoning, China3

Food

Plants1 3

Length

up to 10 m1

estimate based on close relative Euhelopus

Height

up to 2 m1

at the shoulders

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

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How tall was it?

at the shoulders

as long as 2 cars parked in a rowas long as 56 bananas end to endabout as tall as a door

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Fun facts

Liaoningotitan had only nine teeth in its lower jaw, and they were small and not overlapping.1

Its upper teeth were shaped like a D in cross-section and had no grooves or bumps on the outside.1

This dinosaur lived alongside feathered dinosaurs in a lake environment about 125 million years ago.1

Liaoningotitan is one of three long-necked dinosaurs found in the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.1

Scientists think Liaoningotitan was about 10 metres long, as long as a school bus.1

The upper arm bone of Liaoningotitan had a wide top that was about 55 percent of the bone's total length.1

AI-made picture of Liaoningotitan — An AI-made picture of how Liaoningotitan 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 Liaoningotitan

?How big was Liaoningotitan?

About 10 metres (33 feet) long and 2 metres (6.6 feet) tall at the shoulder, as long as a school bus.1

?What did Liaoningotitan eat?

It was a plant-eater. It used its spoon-shaped teeth to strip leaves from trees.1

?When did Liaoningotitan live?

It lived during the Early Cretaceous period, about 125 million years ago.1 3

?Where was Liaoningotitan found?

Its fossils were found in Liaoning, China, in the Yixian Formation.1

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Scientific name: Liaoningotitan
Named by: Zhou et al. 20183
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Titanosauriformes3
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Macronaria3
Age of the rocks: 126 to 120 million years (Barremian / Aptian)3
Rock formations: Yixian3
Countries: China3
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
Discovery: Liaoningotitan was named in 2018 by Zhou Chang-fu and colleagues based on a nearly complete skeleton found in the Jehol Biota of western Liaoning, China.1 2
Still debated: Scientists are not sure whether Liaoningotitan belongs to the Euhelopodidae family or is more closely related to other sauropods like Diamantinasaurus.1

Where the facts come from

Liaoningotitan (en.wikipedia.org)
[dinosaur] Liaoningotitan, new titanosauriform sauropod from Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of Liaoning, China (free pdf) (reptilis.net)
Liaoningotitan in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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