Zhuchengtitan

Zhucheng giant (Zhucheng titan)

• Zhucheng · Chinese (place name) · city in Shandong Province, China, where the fossils were found
• titan · Greek · giant; one of the Titans of Greek myth

Zhuchengtitan is named after Zhucheng, the city in Shandong Province, China, where the fossils were found, combined with "Titan", the giant gods of Greek mythology. The name refers to the animal's large size as a titanosaurian sauropod. The type species is Zhuchengtitan zhangi.

Named by

Xu et al.

Year named

2018

Period

Late Cretaceous

Found in

Wangshi Group, Zhucheng, Shandong Province, China

A titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of eastern China. Type species Zhuchengtitan zhangi. The authorship and year are given with medium confidence, and the exact geologic stage is not given here because I am not sure of it.