Outline: a typical sauropod
Jiangxititan
"Jiangxi titan"
Type species Jiangxititan ganzhouensis
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Mo et al. 2023
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Jiangxititan
What it was like
Jiangxititan was a long-necked, four-legged plant eater, known from several backbones with ribs.
It was first described as a titanosaur, but later studies suggest it was a close relative of the titanosaurs instead.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now southern China.
How it was found
Mo and colleagues named Jiangxititan in 2023, from a single find.
Close relatives
Other members of Somphospondyli
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J.-Y. Mo, Q.-Y. Fu, and Y.-L. Yu, X. Xu. 2023. A new Titanosaurian sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, southern China. Historical Biology