Sulaimanisaurus

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Sulaimanisaurus
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder:	Sauropoda
(unranked)	Titanosauria
Family:	Pakisauridae
Genus:	Sulaimanisaurus Malkani, 2006

Species

S. gingerichi Malkani, 2006 (type)

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, 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]

[edit] References

^ Harris, Jerald D. (2007-06-27). Arsenic and Old Papers. Dinosaur Mailing List Archives. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
^ Malkani, M.S. (2006). "Biodiversity of saurischian dinosaurs from the Latest Cretaceous Park of Pakistan". Journal of Applied and Emerging Sciences 1 (3): 108–140.