Xinjiangtitan Xinjiangtitan
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You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Xinjiangtitan 32 m (105 ft) long
19 people holding hands
- Length
- 32 m (105 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (164.6 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · China
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Mamenchisauridae
Xinjiangtitan () is an extinct genus of mamenchisaurid sauropod that lived during the Middle Jurassic of what is now Xinjiang, northwestern China. Its type and only species is Xinjiangtitan shanshanesis (), known from a single incomplete skeleton recovered from the Qiketai Formation. The holotype preserves one of the most complete vertebral columns of any sauropod found in Asia, and has the longest complete neck known for any animal.
What we know
- Named by Wu et al., 2013.
- Body length estimated at about 32 m.
- Fossils found in Asia and China.