Sulaimanisaurus

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

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. It was considered to be related to Pakisaurus and Khetranisaurus in the family Pakisauridae (used as a synonym of Titanosauridae).[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.
  • Rana, A.N. (2006-03-25). "Country's first dinosaur fossils". DAWN. Retrieved 2007-07-29.


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