Rukwatitan
Field photograph to come
Rukwatitan
DV-0905 · type species Rukwatitan bisepultus
- Lived
- 101 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Tanzania
- Named by
- Gorscak et al. 2014
Field notes
About Rukwatitan
Rukwatitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 72 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Rukwatitan, from Tanzania. Its fossils come from the Galula Formation. It was named by Gorscak et al. in 2014.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
90 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Rinconsauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: E. Gorscak, P. M. O'Connor, and N. J. Stevens, E. M. Roberts. 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