Tambatitanis Tambatitanis
"Tamba giant"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Tambatitanis 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- 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.