Volgatitan

Volga giant

• Volga · Russian (river name) · the Volga River
• titan · Greek · giant, a Titan

The name combines the Volga River, the great river of western Russia near where the fossils were found, with "Titan", the giants of Greek myth, a common suffix for large sauropods. It means roughly "Volga giant". The type species is Volgatitan simonattoi.

Named by

Averianov and Efimov

Year named

2018

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Hauterivian

Found in

Ulyanovsk Oblast (Volga region), Russia

A titanosaurian sauropod, known from partial remains including tail vertebrae. It is one of the earliest known titanosaurs from Europe/Russia.