Khetranisaurus

Khetranisaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Clade:Dinosauria
Order:Saurischia
Suborder:†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:†Sauropoda
Clade:†Titanosauria
Family:†Titanosauridae
Genus:†Khetranisaurus
Malkani, 2004a vide Malkani, 2006
Species: †K. barkhani
Binomial name
Khetranisaurus barkhani
Malkani, 2004a vide Malkani, 2006

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. It was assigned to Pakisauridae (used as a synonym of Titanosauridae), along with Pakisaurus and Sulaimanisaurus.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Harris, Jerald D. (2007-06-27). "Arsenic and Old Papers". Dinosaur Mailing List Archives. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
  2. ↑ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-06-22.
  • 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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