In Depth
Named from a single humerus, Zhuchengtitan is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur that lived in China during the late Cretaceous. Although not much to go on, the humerus of Zhuchengtitan is similar to that seen in the genus Opisthocoelicaudia, indicating Zhuchengtitan was a saltasaurid tianosaur.
Zhuchengtitan lived in a diverse ecosystem which included many other dinosaur types such as ceratopsians like Sinoceratops and Zhuchengceratops, as well as hadrosaurs like Shantungosaurus. Predatory threats to Zhuchengtitan may have come from large tyrannosaurs such as Zhuchengtyrant.
Further Reading
- A new titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous strata of Shandong Province. - Geological Bulletin of China 36(9):1501-1504. - J. Mo, K. Wang, S. Chen, P. Wang & X. Xu - 2017.
