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Giraffatitan
Giraffatitan brancai (Janensch 1914)
Late Jurassic (Tithonian) · 161.5–143.1 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Giraffatitan brancai is a sauropodomorph dinosaur known from the Late Jurassic, roughly 161.5–143.1 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by (Janensch 1914). The species is represented by 42 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~81%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 42 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Giraffatitan sits in deep time
Giraffatitan
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Giraffatitan's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.