Fukuititan
Sign in to saveFukuititan (meaning "giant from Fukui prefecture") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous (either Barremian or Aptian age) in the Kitadani Formation in what is now Japan. The genus contains a single species, Fukuititan nipponensis. The discovery of Fukuititan shed light on Japanese titanosauriforms, which are generally very poorly-known.
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Fukuititan (meaning "giant from Fukui prefecture") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous (either Barremian or Aptian age) in the Kitadani Formation in what is now Japan. The genus contains a single species, Fukuititan nipponensis. The discovery of Fukuititan shed light on Japanese titanosauriforms, which are generally very poorly-known.
==Discovery and naming== The fossils that would eventually be named Fukuititan were discovered in the summer of 2007 at the Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry, near the Sugiyama River, by an expedition in association with the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, which is where the specimen would eventually be reposited. The holotype and only specimen of Fukuititan, given the specimen number FPDM-V8468, was described in 2010 by Japanese scientists Yoichi Azuma and Masateru Shibata, who were working for the museum in which it was stored. It was given the species epithet "nipponensis", which means "from Japan".