Daxiatitan
| Daxiatitan Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
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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, similar to both Euhelopus and Huanghetitan, with an enormously long neck.[2]
Size
- Length 32 m (105 feet)
- Weight 50 tons (metric tons)
References
- ^ You, H.-L. (2008). "Daxiatitan binglingi: a giant sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China". Gansu Geology. 17 (4): 1–10.
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