Titanosaurus
genus of reptiles (fossil)
Titanosaurus [1] was a genus of sauropod dinosaur, first described by Lydekker in 1877 from fragments, but not confirmed by later research.[2]
| Titanosaurus Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
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| Reconstructed skeleton of Titanosaurus blanfordi | |
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| Genus: | Titanosaurus Lydekker, 1877
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Titanosaurus was 9-12 metres (30-40 ft) long and weighed about 13 tons. Titanosaurus has traditionally been treated as a "wastebasket taxon" for poorly preserved sauropod remains. The most well-known species of Titanosaurus, "Titanosaurus" colberti, has been renamed Isisaurus. The remains were from the Upper Cretaceous of India.
Notes
change- ↑ meaning 'titanic lizard' - named after the mythological 'Titans', deities of Ancient Greece
- ↑ Lydekker R. 1877. Notices of new and other vertebrata from Indian tertiary and secondary rocks. Records of the Geological Survey of India, 10(1): 30-43.
