Quaesitosaurus

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iQuaesitosaurus
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder: Sauropoda
Superfamily: Titanosauriformes
Family: Nemegtosauridae
Genus: Quaesitosaurus
Species: Q. orientalis
Binomial name
Quaesitosaurus orientalis
Kurzanov and Bannikov, 1983

Quaesitosaurus ('extraordinary lizard') is a Cretaceous titanosaurian sauropod (the last of this order) found by Kurzanov and Bannikov in 1983. The type species is Quaesitosaurus orientalis. Quaesitosaurus grew to 23 meters long. It lived from 80 to 65 million years ago.

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