Silutitan sinensis Silutitan
"Silk Road giant"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Silutitan 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Euhelopodidae
Silutitan (meaning “Silk Road giant”) is a genus of euhelopodid sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Shengjinkou Formation of Xinjiang, China. It contains only the type species, Silutitan sinensis.
What we know
- Named by Wang et al., 2021.
- Fossils found in China.