<i>Rukwatitan bisepultus</i> (IMAGE)

Ohio University

<i>Rukwatitan bisepultus</i>

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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.

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Eric Gorscak (Ohio University)

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