A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China

Citation

Han, F.; Yang, L.; Lou, F.; Sullivan, C.; Xu, X.; Qiu, W.; Liu, H.; Yu, J.; Wu, R.; Ke, Y.; Xu, M.; Hu, J.; Lu, P. (2024). A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22(1): 2293038. Informa UK Limited. doi:10.1080/14772019.2023.2293038

Names first published here

• Gandititan genus
• Gandititan cavocaudatus species

Cited by genera

• Abdarainurus

  Recovered Abdarainurus within Titanosauria as the sister taxon of Gandititan.

• Baotianmansaurus

  Recovered Baotianmansaurus within Titanosauria, in an eastern-Asian non-lithostrotian clade with Andesaurus, Huabeisaurus and others.

• Daxiatitan

  New titanosaur description recovered Daxiatitan as a basal titanosaur.

• Dongyangosaurus

  Recovered Dongyangosaurus within Titanosauria in an eastern-Asian clade with allies.

• Gandititan
• Huabeisaurus

  Recovered Huabeisaurus among the basalmost titanosaurs.

• Jiangshanosaurus

  New titanosaur description's phylogeny placed Jiangshanosaurus within Euhelopodidae.

• Jiangxititan

  New titanosaur description reanalysis recovered Jiangxititan as a non-titanosaurian somphospondylan.

• Ruixinia

  Described Gandititan and recovered Ruixinia within Euhelopodidae in the phylogenetic analysis.

• Xianshanosaurus

  Recovered Xianshanosaurus within Titanosauria as the sister taxon of Daxiatitan.

• Yongjinglong

  Recovered Yongjinglong within Euhelopodidae.

Cited by clades

• Diamantinasauria

  Recovers Diamantinasauria as sister taxon to Titanosauria rather than a sub-clade within it

• Euhelopodidae

  Reduced consensus analysis supports Euhelopodidae monophyly, adding Ruixinia as a euhelopodid