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Volgatitan (meaning "Volga giant") is a genus of titanosauriansauropoddinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of the Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia. The type and only species is Volgatitan simbirskiensis, known from seven caudal vertebrae from a single individual. It is the oldest known titanosaur from the northern hemisphere, and is considered important for being related to the Lognkosauria, a group known only from South America later in the Late Cretaceous.[1] It was first described in November 2018 by Russian palaeontologists Alexander Averianov and Vladimir Efimov.[1][2]
Classification[]
Amerianov and Efimov recovered Volgatitan as a lithostrotiantitanosaur. They found Lithostrotia to be divided into two main lineages, one containing Saltasauridae, the other containing Lognkosauria, with Volgatitan belonging to the latter. The following cladogram follows their analysis.[1]
