Silutitan

DV-1157 · type species Silutitan sinensis

Lived: 137 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Sauropods, Euhelopodidae
Found in: China
Named by: Wang et al. 2021

Field notes

About Silutitan

Silutitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 137 to 133 million years ago. It belongs to the family Euhelopodidae.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Silutitan, from China. Its fossils come from the Shengjinkou Formation. It was named by Wang et al. in 2021.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

135 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Euhelopodidae.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: X. Wang, K. L. N. Bandeira, and R. Qiu, S. Jiang, X. Cheng, Y. Ma, A. W. A. Kellner. 2021. The first dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Hami Pterosaur Fauna, China. Scientific Reports 11:14962:1-17