Olorotitan

giant swan

• olor · Latin · swan
• titan · Greek · giant

The name combines the Latin "olor" (swan) with the Greek "titan" (giant). It refers to the animal's unusually long, swan-like neck, which had more neck vertebrae than most other hadrosaurs. The type species is Olorotitan arharensis, named after the Arkhara region of Amur Oblast, Russia.

Named by

Godefroit, Bolotsky and Alifanov

Year named

2003

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Udurchukan Formation, Kundur, Amur Oblast, Russia

A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid with a hatchet-shaped hollow crest on its skull. It is known from a nearly complete skeleton.