Huanghetitan

Yellow River titan

• Huang He · Chinese · Yellow River
• Titan · Greek · giant (mythological Titans)

Huanghetitan means "Yellow River titan". The name combines the Chinese name of the Yellow River (Huang He), near which the fossils were found in Gansu Province, with the Greek "Titan", a giant of mythology. The name fits a very large sauropod from the Yellow River region.

Named by

You et al.

Year named

2006

Period

Early Cretaceous

Found in

Hekou Group, Lanzhou Basin (Liujiaxia area, Yongjing County), Gansu, China

A large sauropod (titanosauriform). The type species is H. liujiaxiaensis. A second species, H. ruyangensis from Henan, was named in 2007. Some researchers have treated it as a separate genus, Ruyangosaurus. The exact stage of the Hekou Group fossils is uncertain, so none is given.