Zhuchengtitan zangjiazhuangensis

"Zhucheng titan"

Generic sauropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Zhuchengtitan 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 Zhuchengtitan
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
Place
China
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Saltasauridae

Zhuchengtitan (meaning “Zhucheng titan”) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Shandong, China. It contains a single species, Z. zangjiazhuangensis, named by Mo Jinyou and colleagues in 2017 from a single humerus. Zhuchengtitan can be identified by the extreme width of the top end of its humerus, as well as the expansion of the deltopectoral crest on its humerus; both of these characteristics indicate that it was likely closely related to Opisthocoelicaudia. However, it differs from the latter by the flatter bottom articulating surface of its humerus. Zhuchengtitan lived in a floodplain environment alongside Shantungosaurus, Zhuchengtyrannus, and Sinoceratops.

What we know

  • Named by Mo et al., 2017.
  • Fossils found in China.

What we guess

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