Daxiatitan Daxiatitan
"Daxia giant"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Daxiatitan 30 m (98 ft) long
18 people holding hands
- Length
- 30 m (98 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (122.6 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Euhelopodidae
Daxiatitan; meaning “Daxia giant” after a tributary of the Yellow River}} is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from the Lower Cretaceous of Gansu, China. Its type and only species is Daxiatitan binglingi.}} It is known from a single partial skeleton consisting of most of the neck and back vertebrae, two tail vertebrae, a shoulder blade, and a thigh bone. At the time of its discovery in 2008, Daxiatitan was regarded as potentially the largest known dinosaur from China.
What we know
- Named by You et al., 2008.
- Body length estimated at about 30 m.
- Fossils found in China.