Tambatitanis
Tambatitanis Temporal range: Early Cretaceous | |
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Caudal vertebrae | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Order: | Saurischia |
Suborder: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Neosauropoda |
Clade: | †Macronaria |
Clade: | †Somphospondyli |
Genus: | †Tambatitanis Saegusa & Ikeda, 2014 |
Type species | |
†Tambatitanis amicitiae Saegusa & Ikeda, 2014 |
Tambatitanis is an extinct genus of titanosauriform dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Japan. It is known from a single type species, Tambatitanis amicitiae.[1] It was probably around 13 meters long and its mass was estimated at some 15 tonnes.[2]
References
- ↑ Saegusa, H.; Ikeda, T. (2014). "A new titanosauriform sauropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Hyogo, Japan". Zootaxa. 3848 (1): 1–66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3848.1.1.
- ↑ http://www.dinosaurier-info.de/animals/dinosaurs/pages_t/tambatitanis.php
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