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Gandititan is an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Zhoutian Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, G. cavocaudatus, known from a partial skeleton.

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Gandititan is an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Zhoutian Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, G. cavocaudatus, known from a partial skeleton.

== Discovery and naming == thumb|left|Life restoration The Gandititan holotype specimen, JXGM-F-V1, was discovered in sediments of the Zhoutian Formation in Datangkeng, Ganxian District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, China. The specimen is a partial postcranial skeleton including an articulated series of six cervical vertebrae, an articulated series of two partial dorsal vertebrae, six sacral vertebrae, and 17 caudal vertebrae, some ribs, and a partial right pelvic girdle.

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