Silutitan
Sign in to saveSilutitan (meaning "Silk Road giant") is a genus of euhelopodid sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Shengjinkou Formation of Xinjiang, China. It contains only the type species, Silutitan sinensis.
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- Wang, Bandeira, Qiu, Jiang, Cheng, Ma & Kellner, 2021
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Silutitan (meaning "Silk Road giant") is a genus of euhelopodid sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Shengjinkou Formation of Xinjiang, China. It contains only the type species, Silutitan sinensis.
== Discovery and naming == In 2006, a Konservat-Lagerstätte was reported from the Shengjinkou Formation in the Hami region of Xinjiang, China. This consisted of lake sediments allowing for exceptional preservation of fossils. The same year, Qiu Zhanxiang and Wang Banyue started official excavations.
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