Rukwatitan bisepultus Gorscak et al. 2014 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: E. Gorscak, P. M. O'Connor, N. J. Stevens and E. M. Roberts. 2014. The basal titanosaurian Rukwatitan bisepultus (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation, Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(5):1133-1154

Belongs to Rukwatitan according to E. Gorscak et al. 2017

See also Gorscak et al. 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: (RRBP) 07409, a partial skeleton (partial skeleton including three posterior cervical vertebrae, one partial anterior dorsal vertebral neural arch, three anterior caudal vertebrae, six middle ca). Its type locality is Namba 2, which is in a Cenomanian/Campanian fluvial sandstone in the Galula Formation of Tanzania.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Namba 2

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