Giraffatitan

Say it ji-raf-a-tie-tan. The name means ‘giraffe titan’.

Giraffatitan beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of sauropods

Length: 23 m
Diet: Plant-eater
When: Late Jurassic154 to 142 million years ago
Fossils found in: Tanzania
Named by: Janensch (1914)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Saurischia › Sauropodomorpha › Sauropoda › Macronaria › Titanosauriformes › Brachiosauridae

Where Giraffatitan sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Sauropods. Long-necked, four-legged plant-eaters, the biggest animals ever to walk on land. See all 59

Lived at the same time

Dryosaurus · same country
Barosaurus · same country
Dicraeosaurus · same country
Kentrosaurus · same country
Elaphrosaurus · same country
Janenschia · same country
Chinshakiangosaurus
Chungkingosaurus

Other sauropods

Euhelopus Late Jurassic
Europasaurus Late Jurassic
Haplocanthosaurus Late Jurassic
Janenschia Late Jurassic
Supersaurus Early Cretaceous
Barosaurus Late Jurassic
Mamenchisaurus Late Jurassic
Apatosaurus Late Jurassic

Source: Giraffatitan in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.