Volgatitan
"Volga giant"
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- South America · India
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Volgatitan (meaning “Volga giant”) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of the Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia. The type and only species is Volgatitan simbirskiensis, known from seven from a single individual. It is the oldest known titanosaur from the northern hemisphere, and is considered important for being related to the Lognkosauria, a group known only from South America later in the Late Cretaceous. It was first described in November 2018 by Russian palaeontologists Alexander Averianov and Vladimir Efimov. It is estimated to have weighed about 17.3 MT.
What we know
- Named by Averianov & Efimov, 2018.
- Fossils found in South America and India.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Volgatitan — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.