Zhuchengtitan

Name: Zhuchengtitan ‭(‬Zhucheng titan‭)‬.
Phonetic: Zhu-cheng-tie-tan.
Named By: J.‭ ‬Mo,‭ ‬K.‭ ‬Wang,‭ ‬S.‭ ‬Chen,‭ ‬P.‭ ‬Wang‭ & ‬X.‭ ‬Xu‭ ‬-‭ ‬2017.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Dinosauria,‭ ‬Saurischia,‭ ‬Sauropoda,‭ ‬Titanosauria,‭ ‬Saltasauridae.
Species: Z.‭ ‬zangjiazhuangensis‭ (‬type‭)‬.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Humerus of the holotype‭ ‬108‭ ‬centimetres long.
Known locations: China‭ ‬-‭ ‬Shandong Province‭ ‬-‭ ‬Xingezhuang Formation.
Time period: Late Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Humerus‭ (‬upper arm bone‭)‬.




       Named from a single humerus,‭ ‬Zhuchengtitan is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur that lived in China during the late Cretaceous.‭ ‬Although not much to go on,‭ ‬the humerus of Zhuchengtitan is similar to that seen in the genus Opisthocoelicaudia,‭ ‬indicating Zhuchengtitan was a saltasaurid tianosaur.
‭        Zhuchengtitan lived in a diverse ecosystem which included many other dinosaur types such as ceratopsians like Sinoceratops and Zhuchengceratops,‭ ‬as well as hadrosaurs like Shantungosaurus.‭ ‬Predatory threats to Zhuchengtitan may have come from large tyrannosaurs such as Zhuchengtyrant.

Further reading
-‭ ‬A new titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous strata of Shandong Province.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Geological Bulletin of China‭ ‬36‭(‬9‭)‬:1501-1504.‭ ‬-‭ ‬J.‭ ‬Mo,‭ ‬K.‭ ‬Wang,‭ ‬S.‭ ‬Chen,‭ ‬P.‭ ‬Wang‭ & ‬X.‭ ‬Xu‭ ‬-‭ ‬2017.



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