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Diplodocidae

Titanosaurus teye-tanuh-SƆːRUHS

"titanic lizard"

Generic sauropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Titanosaurus 1.5 m (4.9 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic sauropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Titanosaurus
Length
1.5 m (4.9 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (70–66 Mya)
Place
India
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Diplodocidae Dinosauria Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Whip-tailed sauropods: Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Brontosaurus.

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.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Titanosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.