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Xinjiangtitan

"from"

Generic sauropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Xinjiangtitan 32 m (105 ft) long
as long as 19 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic sauropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Xinjiangtitan
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.

What we guess

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