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| fossil_range = [[Early Cretaceous]], {{fossilrange|122.6}}
| name = ''Daxiatitan''
| fossil_range = [[Lower Cretaceous]], {{fossilrange|122.6}}
| image = Daxiatitan.jpg
| image = Daxiatitan.jpg
| image_caption = Mounted replica skeleton
| image_width = 250px
| genus = Daxiatitan
| image_caption = Restored skeleton
| parent_authority = You ''et al.'', 2008
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| species = binglingi
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| authority = You ''et al.'', 2008
| classis = [[Reptile|Sauropsida]]
| superordo = [[Dinosaur]]ia
| ordo =[[Saurischia]]
| subordo = [[Sauropodomorpha]]
| infraordo = [[Sauropoda]]
| unranked_superfamilia = [[Titanosauria]]
| superfamilia = [[Titanosauroidea]]
| genus = '''''Daxiatitan'''''
|genus_authority=You ''et al.'', 2008
|subdivision_ranks=[[Species]]
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*''D. binglingi'' <small>You ''et al.'', 2008 ([[type species|type]])</small>
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*[http://www.dinodata.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9996&Itemid=103 ''Daxiatitan'' on Dinodata News]


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Revision as of 18:12, 19 May 2015

Daxiatitan
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 122.6 Ma
Mounted replica skeleton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Clade: Macronaria
Clade: Titanosauria
Genus: Daxiatitan
You et al., 2008
Species:
D. binglingi
Binomial name
Daxiatitan binglingi
You et al., 2008

Daxiatitan is a genus of titanosauriform dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Lanzhou Basin, Gansu Province, northwestern China. It is known from fossils including several neck vertebrae, a shoulder blade, and a thigh bone.[1]

It was a very large dinosaur, up to 30 meters (98 feet) long.[1] Like both Euhelopus and Huanghetitan, it had an enormously long neck.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b You, H.-L.; Li, D.-Q.; Zhou, L.-Q.; Ji, Q (2008). "Daxiatitan binglingi: a giant sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China". Gansu Geology. 17 (4): 1–10. Cite error: The named reference "Youetal08" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. ^ http://dinogami.smugmug.com/Travel/Dinosaurs-Along-The-Silk-2/8814579_u2jLY#583746852_JEN8b Reconstructing the skeleton of Daxiatitan