Volgatitan
Field photograph to come
Volgatitan
DV-1040
- Lived
- 133 to 126 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Mamenchisauridae
- Found in
- Russia
- Named by
- Averianov and Efimov 2018
Field notes
About Volgatitan
Volgatitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 133 to 126 million years ago. It belongs to the family Mamenchisauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Volgatitan, from Russia. It was named by Averianov and Efimov in 2018.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
130 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Mamenchisauridae.
- MamenchisaurusMiddle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- OmeisaurusMiddle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- BellusaurusLate Jurassic
- XinjiangtitanMiddle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- AbrosaurusMiddle Jurassic to Late Jurassic
- TongnanlongLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- UragasaurusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Zigongosaurussauropod
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. Averianov and V. Efimov. 2018. The oldest titanosaurian sauropod of the Northern Hemisphere. Biological Communications 63(3):145-162