Fukuititan

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Fukuititan
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 127-115  Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Clade: Macronaria
Clade: Titanosauriformes
Genus: Fukuititan
Azuma & Shibata, 2010
Species:
F. nipponensis
Binomial name
Fukuititan nipponensis
Azuma & Shibata, 2010

Fukuititan (meaning "Fukui Titan") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous (either Barremian or Aptian age) in what is now Japan. The genus contains a single species, Fukuititan nipponensis. It is known from FPDM-V8468, the associated partial skeleton of a single individual, recovered from the Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry (Kitadani Formation) of the Tetori Group, at Katsuyama City. The type species, Fukuititan nipponensis, was described in 2024 by Japanese scientists Yoichi Azuma and Masateru Shibata of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum. The discovery sheds light on Japanese titanosauriforms, which are poorly known in the region. [1]

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References

  1. Azuma, Y.; Shibata, M. (2024). "Fukuititan nipponensis, A New Titanosauriform Sauropod from the Early Cretaceous Tetori Group of Fukui Prefecture, Japan". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (3): 454–462. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00268.x.