Tambatitanis
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 112.6–109.0 Ma
↓
 Albian
Caudal vertebrae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: †Sauropodomorpha
Clade: †Sauropoda
Clade: †Macronaria
Clade: †Somphospondyli
Genus: †Tambatitanis
Saegusa & Ikeda, 2014
Type species
†Tambatitanis amicitiae
Saegusa & Ikeda, 2014
Dentary

Tambatitanis (meaning "Tamba giant", after Tamba, the name given to the northwest of Kansai, Japan[1]) is an extinct genus of titanosauriform dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (probably early Albian[2]) of Japan. It is known from a single type species, Tambatitanis amicitiae, which is known from the Sasayama Group.[1] It was probably around 14 m (46 ft) long and its mass was estimated at some 4 tonnes (3.9 long tons; 4.4 short tons).[2] It was a basal titanosauriform and possibly belonged to the Euhelopodidae.[1] The holotype was collected between 2006 and 2010.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Saegusa, H.; Ikeda, T. (2014). "A new titanosauriform sauropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Hyogo, Japan". Zootaxa. 3848 (1): 1–66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3848.1.1. PMID 25112425.
  2. ^ a b Paul, Gregory S. (2016). The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs: Second Edition. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-691-16766-4.
  3. ^ H. Saegusa, S. Tanaka, T. Ikeda, T. Matsubara, H. Frutani and K. Handa. 2008. On the occurrence of sauropod and some associated vertebrate fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Sasayama Group of Hyogo Prefecture, SW Japan. Journal of Fossil Research 41(1):2-12
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