Fukuititan
| Fukuititan Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Barremian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Titanosauriformes |
| Genus: | †Fukuititan Azuma & Shibata, 2010 |
| Species: | † F. nipponensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Fukuititan nipponensis Azuma & Shibata, 2010 | |
Fukuititan is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous (Barremian age) in what is now Japan. It is known from FPDM-V8468, the associated partial skeleton of a single individual, recovered from the Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry (Kitadani Formation) of the Tetori Group, at Katsuyama City. The type species, Fukuititan nipponensis, was described in 2010 by Japanese scientists Yoichi Azuma and Masateru Shibata of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum. The discovery sheds light on Japanese titanosauriforms, which are poorly known in the region.[1]
References
- ↑ Azuma, Y.; Shibata, M. (2010). "Fukuititan nipponensis, a new titanosauriform sauropod from the Early Cretaceous Tetori Group of Fukui Prefecture, Japan". Acta Geologica Sinica – English Edition 84 (3): 454–462. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00268.x.
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