Rukwatitan bisepultus Rukwatitan

"Etymology TBD"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Rukwatitan 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
Place
Africa · Tanzania
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria

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.