Fukuititan
"giant from Fukui prefecture"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Fukuititan 16 m (53 ft) long
as long as 10 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 16 m (53 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (127–115 Mya)
- Place
- Japan
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Fukuititan (meaning “giant from Fukui prefecture”) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous (either Barremian or Aptian age) in the Kitadani Formation in what is now Japan. The genus contains a single species, Fukuititan nipponensis. The discovery of Fukuititan shed light on Japanese titanosauriforms, which are generally very poorly-known.
What we know
- Named by Azuma & Shibata, 2010.
- Body length estimated at about 16.1 m.
- Fossils found in Japan.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Fukuititan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.