- Khetranisaurus
Taxobox
name = "Khetranisaurus"
fossil_range =Late Cretaceous
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo =Dinosaur ia
ordo =Saurischia
subordo =Sauropodomorpha
infraordo =Sauropoda
unranked_familia =Titanosauria
familia = Pakisauridae
genus = "Khetranisaurus"
genus_authority = Malkani, 2006
subdivision_ranks =Species
subdivision ="K. barkhani" Malkani, 2006 (type)"Khetranisaurus" (meaning "Khetran lizard", for the
Khetran people ofPakistan ) is agenus oftitanosaur iansauropod from theLate Cretaceous ofBalochistan , western Pakistan (also spelled "Khateranisaurus" in some early reports).cite web |url=http://dml.cmnh.org/2007Jun/msg00397.html |title=Arsenic and Old Papers |accessdate=2007-07-29 |last=Harris |first=Jerald D. |authorlink=Jerald D. Harris |date=2007-06-27 |work=Dinosaur Mailing List Archives |publisher=Cleveland Museum of Natural History ] Thetype species is "K. barkhani", and it is based on a tailvertebra , found in theMaastrichtian -age Vitakri Member of thePab Formation .cite journal |last=Malkani |first=M.S. |year=2006 |title=Biodiversity of saurischian dinosaurs from the Latest Cretaceous Park of Pakistan |journal=Journal of Applied and Emerging Sciences |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=108–140]References
External links
*cite web |url=http://www.dawn.com/weekly/science/archive/060325/science5.htm |title=Country’s first dinosaur fossils |accessdate=2007-07-29 |last=Rana |first=A.N. |date=2006-03-25 |publisher=DAWN
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.