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long-neck giant
Ninjatitan
Say it like this: “NIN-juh-TIE-tan”
Ninjatitan zapatai
Ninjatitan ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Argentina.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) · roughly 137.1 to 132.6 million years ago
- Named in
- 2021 · Gallina, P. A.; Canale, J. I.; Carballido, J. L.
- Hip height
- 2.6 m · 9 ft
- Length
- 15 m · 49 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Argentina · Bajada Colorada
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Titanosauria
The story in short
In 2021, P. A. Gallina and colleagues published the name Ninjatitan. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Ninjatitan date to the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian), roughly 137.1 to 132.6 million years ago. Finds come from Argentina, including the Bajada Colorada Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Ninjatitan at a length near 15 m and hips about 2.6 m high.
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