Karongasaurus

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Karongasaurus
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder: Sauropoda
(unranked) Titanosauria
Genus: Karongasaurus
Gomani, 2005
Species
  • K. gittelmani (type)

Karongasaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was a titanosaurid sauropod. Its fossils, consisting solely of part of a lower mandible and a few teeth, were found in Malawi. The type species, Karongasaurus gittelmani, was described by Elizabeth Gomani in 2005.

Karongasaurus holds the distinction of being the first dinosaur published solely on-line.

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