Fukuititan

Fukuititan (meaning "Fukui giant") is a genusof titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous (either Barremian or Aptian 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]

Fukuititan Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 127-115 Ma  PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Fossil elements
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:	†Sauropoda
Clade:	†Macronaria
Clade:	†Titanosauriformes
Genus:	†Fukuititan Azuma & Shibata, 2010
Species:	†F. nipponensis
Binomial name
†Fukuititan nipponensis Azuma & Shibata, 2010

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