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Volgatitan

Say it: VOL-gah-TIE-tan

Name means: “Volga giant”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksEarly Cretaceous

Volgatitan was a huge, long-necked dinosaur that munched on plants. It lived near the Volga River in Russia about 130 million years ago. This gentle giant weighed as much as three elephants!1 2

Lived

133 to 126 million years ago4

Early Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia1 3

Food

Plants3

Weight

17.3 tonnes2 1

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

cool stuff

Fun facts

Volgatitan is the oldest titanosaur ever found in the northern half of the world.1 2

Its fossils were discovered in marine rocks, meaning it probably lived near a sea or its body washed into the ocean after death.2 3

Scientists know Volgatitan from only seven tail bones found together.1 3

It belongs to a group called Lognkosauria, which includes some of the heaviest dinosaurs ever, like Argentinosaurus.2 1

Volgatitan weighed about 17.3 metric tons, which is roughly the same as a big truck.2 1

Its tail bones had a special ball-and-socket joint, making them very strong.2 3

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

?How big was Volgatitan?

It weighed about 17.3 metric tons (19.1 short tons), as heavy as a big truck. Its length is not known exactly, but it was a large sauropod.1 2

?What did Volgatitan eat?

It was a herbivore, meaning it ate plants. It used its long neck to reach leaves and ferns.4

?When did Volgatitan live?

It lived about 130 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous period. That's the time of the dinosaurs.1 4

?Is Volgatitan a dinosaur?

Yes, it is a dinosaur. It was a sauropod, a long-necked plant-eater.1

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Scientific name: Volgatitan
Named by: Averianov and Efimov 20184
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Mamenchisauridae4
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda4
Age of the rocks: 133 to 126 million years (Hauterivian)4
Countries: Russia4
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery: Volgatitan was named in 2018 by Russian paleontologists Alexander Averianov and Vladimir Efimov. They found the bones at a place called Slantsevy Rudnik near Ulyanovsk, Russia.1 2 3
Still debated: Scientists are not sure how long Volgatitan's neck and body were, because only tail bones have been found.1 3

Where the facts come from

Volgatitan (en.wikipedia.org)
The oldest titanosaurian sauropod of the Northern Hemisphere | Biological Communications (biocomm.spbu.ru)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Volgatitan in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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