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]

Fossilised egg of Titanosaurus blanfordi

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.