Daxiatitan
Name:
Daxiatitan
(Daxia titan).
Phonetic: Dax-e-ah-tie-tan.
Named By: H-L. You, D-Q Li, L-Q Zhou
& Q Ji - 2008.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Titanosauria,
Titanosauroidea.
Species: D. binglingi
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain but roughly estimated to be around
21 meters long for the holotype, possibly longer.
Known locations: China, Gansu Province.
Time period: Early Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Daxiatitan is another one of the really big early Cretaceous sauropods from China. The holotype remains are considered to be from an individual twenty-one meters long, though Daxiatitan is also thought to have possibly also grown bigger than this. Daxiatitan was named after branch of the Huang He River. Another large sauropod with a naming connection to this river is Huanghetitan.
Further reading
- Daxiatitan binglingi: a giant sauropod
dinosaur from the Early
Cretaceous of China, H-L. You, D-Q Li, L-Q Zhou & Q
Ji
- 2008.
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