Mnyamawamtuka
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Mnyamawamtuka
DV-1068 · type species Mnyamawamtuka moyowamkia
- Lived
- 121 to 94 million years ago, Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Tanzania
- Named by
- Gorscak and O'Connor 2019
Field notes
About Mnyamawamtuka
Mnyamawamtuka was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 121 to 94 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Mnyamawamtuka, from Tanzania. Its fossils come from the Galula Formation. It was named by Gorscak and O'Connor in 2019.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
110 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Titanosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: E. Gorscak and P. M. O'Connor. 2019. A new African titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation (Mtuka Member), Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania. PLoS ONE 14(2):e0211412:1-54