Khetranisaurus
| Khetranisaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Titanosauria |
| Genus: | †Khetranisaurus Malkani, 2006 |
| Type species | |
| Khetranisaurus barkhani 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.[2]
References
- ↑ Harris, Jerald D. (2007-06-27). "Arsenic and Old Papers". Dinosaur Mailing List Archives. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
- ↑ Malkani, M.S. (2006). 2006b.pdf "Biodiversity of saurischian dinosaurs from the Latest Cretaceous Park of Pakistan" Check
|archiveurl=value (help) (PDF). Journal of Applied and Emerging Sciences. 1 (3): 108–140. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-06-22.
External links
- 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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