Titanosaurus

Titanosaurus; Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
	Reconstructed skeleton of Titanosaurus blanfordi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Infraorder:	†Sauropoda
Family:	†Titanosauridae
Genus:	Titanosaurus; Lydekker, 1877

Titanosaurus ^[1] was a genus of sauropod dinosaur, first described by Lydekker in 1877 from fragments, but not confirmed by later research.^[2]

Titanosaurus was 9-12 metres (30-40 ft) long and weighed about 13 tons. Titanosaurus has traditionally been treated as a "wastebasket taxon" for poorly preserved sauropod remains. The most well-known species of Titanosaurus, "Titanosaurus" colberti, has been renamed Isisaurus. The remains were from the Upper Cretaceous of India.

Notes

↑ meaning 'titanic lizard' - named after the mythological 'Titans', deities of Ancient Greece
↑ Lydekker R. 1877. Notices of new and other vertebrata from Indian tertiary and secondary rocks. Records of the Geological Survey of India, 10(1): 30-43.

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[1] 'titanic lizard' - named after the mythological 'Titans', deities of Ancient Greece

[2] Lydekker R. 1877. Notices of new and other vertebrata from Indian tertiary and secondary rocks. Records of the Geological Survey of India, 10(1): 30-43.

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