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Gandititan

Gandititan is a basal titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of what is now China. Titanosauria have a wide range of body sizes, and Gandititan falls around the middle, slightly on the smaller side. Discovered with a fairly well articluated spine from neck to tail, Gandititan is estimated at about 14 m in total body length.

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Gandititan cavocaudatus Han et al., 2024 (new genus and species)

(Type specimen of Gandititan cavocaudatus, from Han et al., 2024)

Meaning of name: Gandititan = Ganzhou geology [in Chinese] titan [in Greek] (the authors also note that the first part of the name happens to be similar to the Old Norse word for magical entities, "gandr"); cavocaudatus = cavity tailed [in Latin]

Age: Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian)

Where found: Zhoutian Formation, Jiangxi, China

How much is known: Partial skeleton of one individual including multiple neck, hip, and tail vertebrae as well as a small part of the hip.

Notes: Gandititan was a titanosaurian sauropod. Titanosaur remains are often quite fragmentary, but the type specimen of Gandititan qualifies as being fairly well preserved. It is estimated to have been about 14 m long in total body length, and appears to have been closely related to several other Asian titanosaurs such as Abdarainurus, Dongyangosaurus, and Baotianmansaurus.

Reference: Han, F., L. Yang, F. Lou, C. Sullivan, X. Xu, W. Qiu, H. Liu, J. Yu, R. Wu, Y. Ke, M. Xu, J. Hu, and P. Lu. 2024. A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22: 2293038. doi: 10.1080/14772019.2023.2293038

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