Shingopana

DV-0996 · type species Shingopana songwensis

Lived: 101 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Sauropods
Found in: Tanzania
Named by: Gorscak et al. 2017

Field notes

About Shingopana

Shingopana was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 101 to 72 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Shingopana, from Tanzania. Its fossils come from the Galula Formation. It was named by Gorscak et al. in 2017.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

90 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Lithostrotia.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: E. Gorscak, P. M. O'Connor, and E. M. Roberts, N. J. Stevens. 2017. The second titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation, southwestern Tanzania, with remarks on African titanosaurian diversity. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(4):e1343250:1-22