Mnyamawamtuka
m-NYAH-mah-wahm-TOO-kah /mˌɲɑːməwɑːmˈtuːkə/
Accepted genus
animal of Mtuka
- mnyama · Swahili · animal
- wa · Swahili · of
- Mtuka · Swahili (place name) · Mtuka, the member and river where the fossils were found
The name comes from Swahili and means "animal of Mtuka". It refers to the Mtuka Member of the Galula Formation in Tanzania, where the fossils were found. The Mtuka Member is named after the nearby Mtuka River. The type species name, moyowamkia, means "heart of the tail" in Swahili.
- Named by
- Gorscak and O'Connor
- Year named
- 2019
- Period
- Middle Cretaceous
- Found in
- Mtuka Member, Galula Formation, Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania
Valid genus. It is a titanosaurian sauropod. The type and only species is Mnyamawamtuka moyowamkia. The Galula Formation is dated to the middle Cretaceous. I am not certain of the exact stages, so I have left them out.