| Rukwatitan Temporal range:
Middle Cretaceous,
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| Holotype humerus in anterior view with scale bar | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | † Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | † Sauropoda |
| Clade: | † Macronaria |
| Clade: | † Titanosauria |
| Clade: | † Lithostrotia |
| Genus: | †
Rukwatitan Gorscak et al., 2014 |
| Type species | |
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†Rukwatitan bisepultus Gorscak et al.,
2014
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Rukwatitan is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Galula Formation in Tanzania. It lived around 100 million years ago, during the middle Cretaceous. [1] [2] The species, which shared features with another southern African species, Malawisaurus dixeyi, measured 30 feet (9.1 m) from the head to the tip of the tail, [3] and had forelimbs that were estimated around 6.5 feet (2.0 m) long. Its fossils were found embedded in a cliff face near Lake Rukwa in the Rukwa Valley, from which it gets its name. [4] [5]
References
- ^ Gorscak, Eric; O'Connor, Patrick M.; Stevens, Nancy J.; Roberts, Eric M. (2014). "The basal titanosaurian Rukwatitan bisepultus (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation, Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (5): 1133–1154. Bibcode: 2014JVPal..34.1133G. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2014.845568.
- ^ Eric Gorscak. "Ohio University paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania". Ohio: Research. Ohio University. Archived from the original on 9 July 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ Ryan Grenoble (10 September 2014). "New Species Of Massive Dinosaur Discovered In Africa". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
- ^ Agata Blaszczak-Boxe/ (8 September 2014). "New dinosaur species a rare find in Africa". CBS News. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ Jennifer Viegas (8 September 2014). "Another Massive New Dinosaur Found, This Time in Africa". Discovery Channel. Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
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