Mnyamawamtuka moyowamkia Mnyamawamtuka
"beast of the Mtuka river drainage"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Mnyamawamtuka 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (110–100 Mya)
- Place
- Africa · Tanzania
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Mnyamawamtuka (; meaning “beast of the Mtuka river drainage” in Kiswahili) is a genus of lithostrotian titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous Galula Formation in Tanzania. The type and only species is M. moyowamkia.
What we know
- Named by Gorscak and O'Connor, 2019.
- Fossils found in Africa and Tanzania.