Nagatitan the Titanosaur from Thailand

 Hi! I drew this newly discovered dinosaur while recovering from throat surgery. Kudos to the doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, and CNAs who took care of me so skillfully. My surgery went well, but I am still recovering at home. Thank you for your prayers if you were praying for me.  By the way, drawing helps me cope with the pain I frequently have in my throat - especially after surgery! So there are some other hospital-drawn coloring pages coming up soon. 

Nagatitan the Titanosaur from Thailand

Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis was a large Titanosaur found in what is now Thailand. It weighed up to 30 tons and was up to 90 feet, or about 27 meters long. It was a type of sauropod, so it was a long-necked herbivore that probably fed on ferns. Cycads and especially conifers. It lived in the Early Cretaceous Period, about 100-120 million years ago. 

The Pterosaur flying above the Titanosaur Sauropod is a Garudapterus buffetauti. It had a wingspan of 8 feet or 2.44 meters. It also lived in Southeast Asia at the same time as Nagatitan. So the drawing is accurate in that sense too. It had a unique mouth with a diamond-shaped sort of beak. 

If you are wondering why there is grass and flowering plants in this Early Cretaceous picture, know that recent discoveries have shown that flowering plants and grasses appeared much earlier than previously thought. 

The erupting volcano is a stratovolcano. it is not perfectly symmetrical, and that is also possible. Notice the angle change partway up the volcano. That is indicative of stratovolcanoes. These are the biggest type of volcano. 

NOTE: This coloring page, in printable form, is found by clicking on the "Paleontology" button and scrolling down to the bottom of the Mesozoic Life section of the list. Click on the title, and you get the printable coloring page. Realize that this title will be last or near the last of the Mesozoic animals IF you are accessing this site or blog in July or August of 2026; this title will be at or near the end of the list. But I draw a lot of Mesozoic animals (especially dinos), so the title will be further up the list after that. Have fun coloring this spectacular Titanosaur!