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long-neck giant
Zhuchengtitan
Say it like this: “JOO-chang-TIE-tuhn”
Zhuchengtitan zangjiazhuangensis
Zhuchengtitan ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in China.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2017 · Mo, J.; Wang, K.; Chen, S.; Wang, P.; Xu, X.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- China · Hongtuya
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Opisthocoelicaudiinae
The story in short
In 2017, J. Mo and colleagues published the name Zhuchengtitan. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Zhuchengtitan date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from China, including the Hongtuya Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
The fossils of Zhuchengtitan are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Opisthocoelicaudiinae, among the sauropod dinosaurs.