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long-neck giant
Mnyamawamtuka
Mnyamawamtuka moyowamkia
Mnyamawamtuka ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous · Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Tanzania.
- When
- Early Cretaceous · Late Cretaceous (Aptian · Albian · Cenomanian) · roughly 121.4 to 93.9 million years ago
- Named in
- 2019 · Gorscak, E.; O'Connor, P. M.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 7.6 m · 25 ft
- Weight
- 1.5 tonnes
- Found in
- Tanzania · Galula
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Lithostrotia
The story in short
Mnyamawamtuka was formally named in 2019 by E. Gorscak and P. M. O'Connor. The name means “beast of the Mtuka river drainage.”
It lived in the Early Cretaceous · Late Cretaceous (Aptian · Albian · Cenomanian), roughly 121.4 to 93.9 million years ago. Finds come from Tanzania, including the Galula Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Mnyamawamtuka at a length near 7.6 m and a body mass around 1.5 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Lithostrotia, among the sauropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Atacamatitan
Atacamatitan chilensis
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Maastrichtian) · roughly 100.5 to 66 million years ago
Dreadnoughtus
Dreadnoughtus schrani
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Elaltitan
Elaltitan lilloi
Late Cretaceous (Coniacian) · roughly 89.8 to 85.7 million years ago