Life reconstruction of Jiangxititan ganzhouensis. Image credit: UnexpectedDinoLesson / Sci.News.
SciNews has a story about the discovery of a new Titanosaur. The animal, Jiangxititan ganzhouensis, lived between 72 and 66 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. The fossils were found in the Nanxiong Formation near Tankou Town in Ganzhou City, the Chinese province of Jiangxi, which is commemorated in the name. J. ganzhouensis is a sauropod dinosaur and belongs to the Titanosauria dinosaur clade. Details can be found in the paper "A New Titanosaurian Sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, Southern China" in the journal Historical Biology.
Jiangxititan ganzhouensis represents the second sauropod species from the Nanxiong Formation.
“The Late Cretaceous Nanxiong Formation is represented by an extensive sequence of red mudstones, sandstones and conglomerates,” the paleontologists wrote.
“It has yielded a diverse array of vertebrates in recent years, including theropods, ornithopods, crocodiles, turtles, lizards, and mammals, as well as a vast number of dinosaur eggs.”
