Marisaurus

Marisaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder:	Sauropoda
(unranked):	Titanosauria
Family:	Balochisauridae
Genus:	Marisaurus Malkani, 2006
Species
M. jeffi Malkani, 2006 (type)

Marisaurus (meaning "Mari lizard", for the Mari tribe of Pakistan) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Balochistan, western Pakistan. The type species is M. jeffi, described by M. Sadiq Malkani in 2006, and it is based on tail vertebrae, found in the Maastrichtian-age Vitakri Member of the Pab Formation. Much additional material, including a partial skull, many vertebrae, and a few hindlimb bones, has been assigned to it.^[1]

References

1. ^ Malkani, M.S. (2006). "Biodiversity of saurischian dinosaurs from the Latest Cretaceous Park of Pakistan". Journal of Applied and Emerging Sciences 1 (3): 108–140. http://www.gsp.gov.pk/Malkani%202006b.pdf. 

External links

• Dinosaur Mailing List post on Marisaurus and other new taxa from Pakistan.
• Rana, A.N. (2006-03-25). "Country’s first dinosaur fossils". DAWN. Archived from the original on 2007-06-21. http://web.archive.org/web/20070621133347/http://www.dawn.com/weekly/science/archive/060325/science5.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-29. </ref>
• Marisaurus on DinoData.org

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