Rukwatitan

Rukwatitan is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Galula Formation in Tanzania. It lived around 100 million years ago, during the middle Cretaceous.^[1][2] The species, which shared features with another southern African species, Malawisaurus dixeyi, measured 30 feet (9.1 m) from the head to the tip of the tail,^[3] and had forelimbs that were estimated around 6.5 feet (2.0 m) long. Its fossils were found embedded in a cliff face near Lake Rukwa in the Rukwa Valley, from which it gets its name.^[4][5]

Rukwatitan Temporal range: Middle Cretaceous, 100 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Holotype humerus in anterior view with scale bar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:	†Sauropoda
Clade:	†Macronaria
Clade:	†Titanosauria
Clade:	†Lithostrotia
Genus:	†Rukwatitan Gorscak et al., 2014
Type species
†Rukwatitan bisepultus Gorscak et al., 2014