Hamititan xinjiangensis
"Hami giant"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Hamititan 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Hamititan (meaning “Hami giant”) is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Shengjinkou Formation of Xinjiang, China. It contains one species, the type species, Hamititan xinjiangensis.
What we know
- Named by Wang et al., 2021.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Hamititan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.