''Huanghetitan'' ruyangensis inaccurate

A ''H''.ruyangensis info sheet.

''Huanghetitan'' ruyangensis was a species of basal titanosauriform sauropod that lived in what is now China in the cenomanian stage of the late cretaceous in the obscure Mangchuan formation, located in the Hekou group, located in Gansu, China.
It's name translates into ''Yellow river titan from Ruyang'', and apt name, considering it's humongous size and being found near the yellow river in Ruyang.
It is known from a partial vertebral column and ribs, one of the ribs measured 2,9m, indicating some of the largest body cavities of any dinosaur.
Puertasaurus likely surpassed this.

I've decided to illustrate it with two fleshy combs on it's head for display, as well as an inflatable gular pouch (currently deflated).
These are speculative, just like the serrated keratinous ridge over it's neck and the small keratinous knobs used for a form of brontosmash.

There is little information about the formation it was found in, so it is not known what kind of predators were present there together with it, but it certainly was nearly immune to predation when adult.

I've shown it with a Loxodonta africana for scale (African bush elephant), and a H.sapiens (human).

Approximate length: 32m
Approximate heigh (in image): 17m
Approximate weight: 65 tonnes
Maximum speed: likely around 15 - 20 km/h, according to certain calculations this was the upper speed of giant sauropods.
Predators: None known from formation. Would certainly be mostly immune to predation when adult


It needs a new genus name btw, a study found this and H.liujiaxiaensis (what a name) to not be particularly closely related, so Huanghetitan is a placeholder name for now.


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EDIT!!!!!!: Thank to I now know this is inaccurate, their nosegear is NOT plausible, and the proportions are too diplodocoid.