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[Paleontology • 2014] Rukwatitan bisepultus • A New titanosaurian sauropod from the middle Cretaceous of Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania

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 deceased Rukwatitan bisepultus individual and the initial floodplain depositional setting from which the holotypic skeleton was recovered, from the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania.
illustration: Mark Witton [markwitton-com], University of Portsmouth

Ohio University paleontologists have identified a new species of titanosaurian, a member of the large-bodied sauropods that thrived during the final period of the dinosaur age, in Tanzania. This image shows a silhouette of Rukwatitan bisepultus and the skeleton segments recovered from the Rukwa Rift Basin site. The scale bar represents 1 meter.
photo: Eric Gorscak, Ohio University

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