SILUTITAN
A plant-eating euhelopodid sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Xinjiang, China.
Pronunciation:
Meaning: Silk Road Giant
Author/s: Xiaolin Wang
et al. (
2021)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: Xinjiang, China
Discovery Chart Position: #1048
Silutitan sinensis
(Silk Road Giant from China)Etymology
Silutitan is derived from the Chinese Mandarin pinyin "Silu" (Silk Road), in memory the great trade routes which connected the East and West, and the Greek "titan" (giant), referring to the large size of this genus.
The
species epithet,
sinensis, means "from China" in Latin.
ZooBank registry:
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:5486C746-C883-4B9C-BEFB-F711AA122710.
Discovery
The remains of
Silutitan were discovered in the Shengjinkou Formation (Tugulu Group) at Hami, Xinjiang, China, by the Hami field team of the IVPP in 2016.
The
holotype (IVPP V27874) is a series of six neck vertebrae with almost all ribs attached. The remains were associated with a lower jaw of a pteranodontoid pterosaur called
Hamipterus.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Aptian
Age range: 125-112 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Xiaolin Wang, Kamila L. N. Bandeira, Rui Qiu, Shunxing Jiang, Xin Cheng, Yingxia Ma and Alexander W. A. Kelln (2021) "The first dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Hami Pterosaur Fauna, China".
Scientific Reports, 11: 14962. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-94273-7
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