Khetranisaurus
Khetranisaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Sauropsida |
Superorder: | Dinosauria |
Order: | Saurischia |
Suborder: | Sauropodomorpha |
Infraorder: | Sauropoda |
(unranked): | Titanosauria |
Family: | Pakisauridae |
Genus: | Khetranisaurus Malkani, 2006 |
Species | |
K. barkhani Malkani, 2006 (type) |
Khetranisaurus (meaning "Khetran lizard", for the Khetran people of Pakistan) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Balochistan, western Pakistan (also spelled "Khateranisaurus" in some early reports).[1] The type species is K. barkhani, described by M. Sadiq Malkani in 2006, and it is based on a tail vertebra, found in the Maastrichtian-age Vitakri Member of the Pab Formation.[2]
References
- ↑ Harris, Jerald D. (2007-06-27). "Arsenic and Old Papers". Dinosaur Mailing List Archives. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
- ↑ Malkani, M.S. (2006). "Biodiversity of saurischian dinosaurs from the Latest Cretaceous Park of Pakistan" (PDF). Journal of Applied and Emerging Sciences 1 (3): 108–140.
External links
- Rana, A.N. (2006-03-25). "Country’s first dinosaur fossils". DAWN. Archived from the original on 2007-06-21. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
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