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Shingopana

Say it: shin-go-PAH-nah

Name means: “wide neck in Swahili”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksLate Cretaceous

Shingopana was a long-necked dinosaur that munched on plants in ancient Tanzania. It was a titanosaur, a type of sauropod, but smaller than many of its giant cousins. Shingopana lived about 74 to 71 million years ago.1 2

Lived

100 to 72 million years ago2

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Galula Formation, Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania2 1

Food

Plants2

Length

up to 8 m1

estimate for fully grown adult

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

as long as 4 bicycles in a rowas long as 44 bananas end to end

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Fun facts

Shingopana's fossils had holes from insect bites that happened shortly after the dinosaur died.1

Scientists think Shingopana was more closely related to South American titanosaurs than to other African ones.1

Shingopana lived alongside other dinosaurs like Rukwatitan and Mnyamawamtuka, as well as crocodile-like reptiles and lungfish.1

The name Shingopana means 'wide neck' in Swahili, because of the bulbous parts on its neck bones.1

Shingopana is known from a partial jaw, neck bones, ribs, a shoulder bone, and a partial hip bone.1

Shingopana's ribs had flanged edges, but scientists are not sure what these were for.1

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

?How big was Shingopana?

Shingopana was about 8 metres (26 feet) long, which is smaller than many other sauropods.1

?What did Shingopana eat?

Shingopana was a plant-eater, munching on leaves and other vegetation.1

?Where did Shingopana live?

Shingopana lived in what is now Tanzania, in Africa, about 74 to 71 million years ago.1

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Scientific name: Shingopana
Named by: Gorscak et al. 20172
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Lithostrotia2
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria2
Age of the rocks: 100 to 72 million years (Cenomanian / Campanian)2
Rock formations: Galula2
Countries: Tanzania2
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database2
Discovery: The first fossils of Shingopana were found in 2002 by scientists from the Rukwa Rift Basin Project. It was named Shingopana songwensis in 2017 by Gorscak and colleagues.1 2
Still debated: Scientists are not sure why the ribs had flanged edges or what the bulbous parts on the neck bones were for.1

Where the facts come from

Shingopana (en.wikipedia.org)
Shingopana in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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