Outline: a typical sauropod
Zhuchengtitan
"Zhucheng titan"
Type species Zhuchengtitan zangjiazhuangensis
- Lived
- 84 to 72 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Saltasauridae
- Found in
- China
- Named by
- Mo et al. 2017
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Zhuchengtitan
What it was like
Zhuchengtitan was a titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater. It is known from a front leg bone.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now China. It comes from the Hongtuya Formation, where it shared the land with the giant duckbill Shantungosaurus, the tyrannosaur Zhuchengtyrannus and the horned Sinoceratops.
How it was found
Mo and colleagues named Zhuchengtitan in 2017. The type species is Zhuchengtitan zangjiazhuangensis.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Saltasauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. Mo, K. Wang, and S. Chen, P. Wang, X. Xu. 2017. A new titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous strata of Shandong Province. Geological Bulletin of China 36(9):1501-1504