Shingopana
Name:
Shingopana
(wide neck).
Phonetic: Shing-o-pan-e-ah.
Named By: E. Gorscak, P. M. O'Connor, E.
M. Roberts & N. J. Stevens - 2017.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Titanosauria, Lithostrotia.
Species: S. songwensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Estimated up to 8 meters long.
Known locations: Tanzania - Galula Formation.
Time period: Aptian/Cenomanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial skeleton
and a partial jaw.
Shingopana
is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod
dinosaur that lived in Africa
during the Cretaceous. Shingopana is a small
genus of titanosaur and
one thought to have been similar to the genus Aeolosaurus,
though the
femur of Shingopana is proportionately shorter than
that seen in
Aeolosaurus.
Further reading
- The second titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the
middle Cretaceous Galula Formation, southwestern Tanzania, with
remarks on African titanosaurian diversity. - Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 37(4):e1343250:1-22. - E. Gorscak, P. M.
O'Connor, E. M. Roberts & N. J. Stevens -
2017.
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