Rukwatitan bisepultus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Rukwatitan 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- Africa · Tanzania
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Rukwatitan is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Galula Formation in Tanzania. It lived around 100 million years ago, during the middle Cretaceous. The species, which shared features with another southern African species, Malawisaurus dixeyi, measured 30 ft from the head to the tip of the tail, and had forelimbs that were estimated around 6.5 ft long. Its fossils were found embedded in a cliff face near Lake Rukwa in the Rukwa Valley, from which it gets its name.
What we know
- Named by Gorscak et al., 2014.
- Fossils found in Africa and Tanzania.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Rukwatitan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.