Outline: a typical sauropod
Shingopana
"wide neck"
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
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
90 million years ago
Field notes
About Shingopana
What it was like
Shingopana was a titanosaur, a long-necked, four-legged plant eater, known from part of the neck, ribs, arm and jaw. Its neck bones were broad, which gave it its name in a local African language.
It seems to be more closely related to titanosaurs from South America than to others from Africa.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Tanzania. Its bones come from the Galula Formation, where it shared the land with the titanosaurs Rukwatitan and Mnyamawamtuka.
How it was found
Gorscak and colleagues named Shingopana in 2017, from a single find.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Lithostrotia
Sources: 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