| "Pakisaurus" Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian | |
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| Pakisaurus(Left) and Isisaurus(Right) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Sauropodomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Sauropoda |
| Family: | Saltasauridae |
| Genus: | "Pakisaurus" Malkani, 2004a vide Malkani, 2006 |
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"Pakisaurus" (meaning "Pakistan lizard") is an informally named genus of titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Balochistan, western Pakistan. The type species is "P. balochistani", and it was informally named by M. Sadiq Malkani in 2006, based on four tail vertebrae, found in the Maastrichtian-age Vitakri Member of the Pab Formation. Three additional tail vertebrae have been assigned to it. The author erected the family Pakisauridae, using it synonymously with older Titanosauridae. "Pakisaurus" was decided to be closely related to Sulaimanisaurus and Khetranisaurus, both from Pakistan as well. In 2023 a Sauropod femur from Temple hill, Gujarat, India from Lameta formation was Identified as Pakisaurus confirming the migration of dinosaurs between India and Pakistan.
References[]
Malkani, M.S. (2006). "Biodiversity of saurischian dinosaurs from the Latest Cretaceous Park of Pakistan" (PDF). Journal of Applied and Emerging Sciences. 1 (3): 108–140.