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Titanosaurus, literally meaning 'titanic lizard', was named after the mythological Titans.. Titanosaurus was the first Indian dinosaur to be named and properly described, having been recorded for the first time in 1877.
Because they found Titanosaurus to be a dubious name, they proposed that Linnaean-named groups Titanosauridae and Titanosauroidea should be considered invalid as well. Wilson & Upchurch (2003) supported the definition of Salgado et al. (1997) for Titanosauria, since it was oldest and most similar to the original content of the group when named ...
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The type specimen of Isisaurus colberti, ISI R 335/1-65, was originally described and named as Titanosaurus colberti by Sohan Lal Jain and Saswati Bandyopadhyay in 1997. The specific name honours Edwin Harris Colbert. [1] [2] In 2003, the fossils were designated as belonging to its own genus by Wilson and Upchurch. [3]
Lithostrotia is a clade of derived titanosaur sauropods that lived during the Early Cretaceous and Late Cretaceous.The group was defined by Upchurch et al. in 2004 as the most recent common ancestor of Malawisaurus and Saltasaurus and all the descendants of that ancestor.
Titanosaurus araukanicus von Huene, 1929 vide Powell, 1992 Laplatasaurus (meaning "La Plata lizard", named for La Plata , Argentina ) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in South America , with the holotype and only known specimen found in the Anacleto Formation .
Dreadnoughtus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur containing a single species, Dreadnoughtus schrani. D. schrani is known from two partial skeletons discovered in Upper Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian; approximately 76–70 Ma) rocks of the Cerro Fortaleza Formation in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.
Titanomachya is a small titanosaur, with an estimated length of 6 metres (20 ft). [2] It probably weighed between 5.8 and 9.8 tonnes (6.4 and 10.8 short tons), with a mean body mass of 7.8 tonnes (8.6 short tons).