Gandititan cavocaudatus

"Earth"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Gandititan 14 m (46 ft) long
as long as 8 people standing fingertip to fingertip
Length
14 m (46 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Gandititan reconstruction by TotalDino
Reconstruction · TotalDino (CC-BY)

Gandititan is an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Zhoutian Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, G. cavocaudatus, known from a partial skeleton.

What we know

  • Named by Han et al., 2024.
  • Body length estimated at about 14 m.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Gandititan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.