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Tambatitanis

"Tamba giant"

Generic sauropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tambatitanis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic sauropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Tambatitanis
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Early Cretaceous (112.6–109 Mya)
Place
Japan
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Euhelopodidae

Tambatitanis (meaning “Tamba giant”, after Tamba, the name given to the northwest of Kansai, Japan) is an extinct genus of titanosauriform, possibly titanosaurian, sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous-aged (early Albian) Ohyamashimo Formation of the Sasayama Group. It is known from a single species, Tambatitanis amicitiae, known from a partial skeleton.

What we know

  • Named by Saegusa & Ikeda, 2014.
  • Fossils found in Japan.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Tambatitanis — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.