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long-neck giant
Hamititan
Say it like this: “HA-me-TIE-tuhn”
Hamititan xinjiangensis
Hamititan ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) · roughly 137.1 to 132.6 million years ago
- Named in
- 2021 · Wang, X.; Bandeira, K. L. N.; Qiu, R.; Jiang, S.; Cheng, X.; Ma, Y.; Kellner, A. W. A.
- Hip height
- 3.4 m · 11 ft
- Length
- 17 m · 56 ft
- Weight
- 22 tonnes
- Found in
- China · Shengjinkou
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Titanosauria
The story in short
The genus Hamititan dates to 2021, the year X. Wang and colleagues described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian), roughly 137.1 to 132.6 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Shengjinkou Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Hamititan at a length near 17 m, hips about 3.4 m high, and a body mass around 22 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Titanosauria, among the sauropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Aegyptosaurus
Aegyptosaurus baharijensis
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago
Andesaurus
Andesaurus delgadoi
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago
Antarctosaurus
Antarctosaurus wichmannianus
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago