Volgatitan
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| Volgatitan Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| Skeletal diagram, known material in white | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria |
| Clade: | †Titanosauria |
| Clade: | †Lithostrotia |
| Genus: | †Volgatitan Averianov & Efimov, 2018 |
| Species: | †V. simbirskiensis
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| †Volgatitan simbirskiensis Averianov & Efimov, 2018
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Volgatitan (meaning "
palaeontologists Alexander Averianov and Vladimir Efimov.[1][2] It is estimated to have weighed about 17.3 metric tons (19.1 short tons).[1]
Classification
Averianov and Efimov recovered Volgatitan as a
titanosaur. They found Lithostrotia to be divided into two main lineages, one containing Saltasauridae, the other containing Lognkosauria, with Volgatitan belonging to the latter. The following cladogram follows their analysis.[1]
References
- ^ hdl:11701/15099.
- ^ "Russian scientists discover new giant herbivorous dinosaur Volgatitan". India Today. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.