Tambatitanis

Tambatitanis
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Caudal vertebrae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Neosauropoda
Clade: Macronaria
Clade: Somphospondyli
Genus: Tambatitanis
Saegusa & Ikeda, 2014
Type species
Tambatitanis amicitiae
Saegusa & Ikeda, 2014
Dentary

Tambatitanis is an extinct genus of titanosauriform dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Japan. It is known from a single type species, Tambatitanis amicitiae.[1] It was probably around 13 meters long and its mass was estimated at some 15 tonnes.[2]

References

  1. Saegusa, H.; Ikeda, T. (2014). "A new titanosauriform sauropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Hyogo, Japan". Zootaxa. 3848 (1): 1–66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3848.1.1.
  2. http://www.dinosaurier-info.de/animals/dinosaurs/pages_t/tambatitanis.php
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