Huanghetitan
"Yellow River titan"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Huanghetitan 3 m (9.8 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 3 m (9.8 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Huanghetitan (meaning “Yellow River titan”), is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period. It was a basal titanosauriform which lived in what is now Gansu, China.
What we know
- Named by You et al., 2006.
- Body length estimated at about 3 m.
- Fossils found in China.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Huanghetitan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.