Jainosaurus Jainosaurus

"Etymology TBD"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jainosaurus 18 m (59 ft) long
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Length
18 m (59 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (68 Mya)
Place
Asia · India
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria

Jainosaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur of India and wider Asia, which lived in the Maastrichtian (approximately 68 million years ago). It is thought to have been about the same size as its contemporary relative Isisaurus, measuring 18 m long and weighing 15 MT. The humerus of the type specimen is 134 centimetres long.

What we know

  • Named by Hunt et al., 1995.
  • Body length estimated at about 18 m.
  • Fossils found in Asia and India.