Sulaimanisaurus
| Sulaimanisaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Sauropodomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Sauropoda |
| (unranked): | Titanosauria |
| Family: | Pakisauridae |
| Genus: | Sulaimanisaurus Malkani, 2006 |
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Sulaimanisaurus (meaning "Sulaiman lizard", for the Sulaiman foldbelt) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Balochistan, western Pakistan (also spelled "Sulaimansaurus" in some early reports).[1] The type species is S. gingerichi, described by M. Sadiq Malkani in 2006, and it is based on seven tail vertebra, found in the Maastrichtian-age Vitakri Member of the Pab Formation. Four additional tail vertebrae have been assigned to it.[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. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
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