Khetranisaurus
Name:
Khetranisaurus
(Khetran lizard).
Phonetic: Key-tran-e-sore-us.
Named By: M. Sadiq Malkani - 2004.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Titanosauria,
Pakisauridae?
Species: K. barkhani (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unknown due to lack of remains.
Known locations: Pakistan, Balochistan - Pab
Formation.
Time period: Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Caudal vertebra.
Very
little
can be said about this titanosaur because it is only represented by a
single caudal (tail) vertebrae. In addition to this the
palaeontologist who named Khetranisaurus, M.
Sadiq Malkani, also
named three other titanosaurs Sulaimanisaurus,
Pakisaurus
and
Balochisaurus,
Marisaurus
in that same year, all from only caudal
vertebrae. The first two were included along with Khetranisaurus
into
the Pakisauridae, a family of titanosaurs also created by Malkani
with Pakisaurus as the type genus. In early reports concerning
Khetranisaurus, the name was sometimes spelled Khateranisaurus.
In
2006 Malkani also named another an abelisaur called Vitakridrinda.
Further reading
- Saurischian dinosaurs from Late Cretaceous of Pakistan, by M. S.
Malkani. - In, 5th Pakistan Geological Congress, Islamabad. National
Geological Society of Pakistan, Pakistan Museum of Natural History
(Pakistan Science Foundation) 71-73. - S. S. Hussain & H. D.
Akbar (eds.). - 2004.
- Biodiversity of saurischian dinosaurs from the latest Cretaceous
Park of Pakistan. - Journal of Applied and Emerging Sciences
1(3):108-140. - M. Sadiq Malkani - 2006.
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