Tambatitanis
Tambatitanis was a huge, long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now Japan. It had a very long tail and a small head, and it munched on leaves with its peg-like teeth.1
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Tambatitanis is known from a partial skeleton that includes 22 tail bones and 17 chevrons (bones under the tail).1
Its front chevron is the longest of any sauropod when compared to body size.2
The fossil was found in a riverbed and took five field seasons to dig out because water covered it most of the year.1
Tambatitanis lived about 113 to 110 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous.4
Scientists think Tambatitanis might belong to a group of sauropods called Euhelopodidae, which are only found in East Asia.2
The name Tambatitanis comes from Tamba, the area in Japan where it was found, and the Greek word for giant.1
Most asked questions about Tambatitanis
?How big was Tambatitanis?
Nobody knows for sure because only a partial skeleton has been found. It was a large sauropod, but its exact length and weight are not known.1
?What did Tambatitanis eat?
It was a plant-eater. It used its peg-like teeth to munch on leaves.1
?Where was Tambatitanis found?
Its fossils were discovered in a riverbed in Tamba-Sasayama, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It took five field seasons to dig them out because water covered the site most of the year.1
?Is Tambatitanis a dinosaur?
Yes, it is a dinosaur. It is a titanosauriform sauropod from the Early Cretaceous.1
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- Scientific name
- Tambatitanis
- Named by
- Saegusa and Ikeda 20144
- Group
- Long-necks
- Family / clade
- Euhelopodidae4
- Classification
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Macronaria4
- Age of the rocks
- 113 to 110 million years (Albian)4
- Rock formations
- Ohyamashimo4
- Countries
- Japan4
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
- Discovery
- Tambatitanis was discovered in August 2006 by Shigeru Murakami and Kiyoshi Adachi in a riverbed in Hyogo, Japan. It was named and described by Haruo Saegusa and Tadahiro Ikeda in 2014.1
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure whether Tambatitanis was a basal titanosauriform or a true titanosaur. Its exact place in the family tree is still debated.1
Where the facts come from
- Tambatitanis (en.wikipedia.org)
- A new titanosauriform sauropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Hyogo, Japan | Zootaxa (mapress.com)
- Tambatitanis amicitiae | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
- Tambatitanis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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