Shingopana songwensis Shingopana
"wide neck"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Shingopana 8 m (26.2 ft) long
5 people holding hands
- Length
- 8 m (26.2 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Africa · South Africa · Tanzania
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Shingopana (meaning “wide neck” in Swahili) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous (late Campanian-early Maastrichtian age) Galula Formation of Tanzania. It is known from only the type species, S. songwensis. Gorscak & O’Connor’s phylogenetic testing suggest Shingopana is more closely related to the South American titanosaur family of Aeolosaurini than any of the titanosaurs found so far in North & South Africa.
What we know
- Named by Gorscak et al. 2017.
- Body length estimated at about 8 m.
- Fossils found in South America and Africa.