Titanosaurus teye-tanuh-SƆːRUHS

"titanic lizard"

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Titanosaurus 1.5 m (4.9 ft) long
2 people holding hands
Length
1.5 m (4.9 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (70–66 Mya)
Place
India
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Diplodocidae Dinosauria Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda

Titanosaurus (; “titanic lizard”) is a dubious genus of sauropod dinosaurs, first described by Richard Lydekker in 1877. It is known from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Lameta and Kallakurichi Formations of India.

What we know

  • Named by Lydekker, 1877.
  • Body length estimated at about 1.5 m.
  • Fossils found in India.