Genus
Valid Extinct

Daxiatitan

You et al. 2008
Etymology De la rivière Daxia, laquelle est un affluent du fleuve Jaune courant le long de la région de Linxia dans la province de Gansu où a été trouvé le spécimen et de ''titan'' les géants de la mythologie grecque, une allusion à la grande taille de l’animal.

Daxiatitan is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from the Lower Cretaceous of Gansu, China. Its type and only species is Daxiatitan binglingi. It is known from a single partial skeleton consisting of most of the neck and back vertebrae, two tail vertebrae, a shoulder blade, and a thigh bone. At the time of its discovery in 2008, Daxiatitan was regarded as potentially the largest known dinosaur from China.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling, gregarious Terrestrial
Daxiatitan
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Reconstructed skeleton of Daxiatitan binglingi. © Tiouraren · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Saurischia Unranked clade
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Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
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Massopoda Unranked clade
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Sauropodiformes Unranked clade
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Sauropoda Unranked clade
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Gravisauria Unranked clade
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Eusauropoda Unranked clade
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Neosauropoda Unranked clade
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Macronaria Unranked clade
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Titanosauriformes Unranked clade
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Somphospondyli Unranked clade
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Euhelopodidae Unranked clade
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Daxiatitan Genus
Measurements
Length
25 m ⓘ
Daxiatitan binglingi
Mass
23 000 kg ⓘ
Daxiatitan binglingi
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
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Geological formations
Upper
1
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Daxiatitan binglingi 126 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
H.-l. You, D.-q. Li, and L.-q. Zhou, Q. Ji. 2008. Daxiatitan binglingi: a giant sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. Gansu Geology 17(4):1-10
Bibliography (1)
H.-l. You, D.-q. Li, and L.-q. Zhou, Q. Ji. 2008. Daxiatitan binglingi: a giant sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. Gansu Geology 17(4):1-10