Nagatitan

Naga titan

• Naga · Sanskrit · mythical serpent or dragon-like being in South and Southeast Asian tradition
• titan · Greek · giant (the Titans of Greek myth)

The name combines "Naga", a serpent or dragon-like being from Asian mythology, with the Greek "titan", meaning giant. It marks the animal as a huge, long-necked sauropod from Asia. I'm not certain of the authors' exact stated reasoning.

Named by

Mo et al.

Year named

2023

Period

Early Cretaceous

Nagatitan chinatownensis is a titanosauriform sauropod, described around 2023. I'm not confident of the details of its age, locality and authorship, so I left those fields blank or approximate. Check the original description before citing them.