Titanosaurus

titan lizard

• Titan · Greek · Titan, a giant deity of Greek myth
• sauros · Greek · lizard

The name combines the Greek "Titan", one of the giant gods of Greek mythology, with "sauros", meaning lizard. Lydekker chose it to convey the animal's enormous size. The group Titanosauria, which includes many large sauropods, is named after this genus.

Named by

Lydekker

Year named

1877

Period

Late Cretaceous

Stage

Maastrichtian

Found in

Lameta Formation, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India (type species T. indicus)

A sauropod. The type species, T. indicus, is based on fragmentary remains (including a few caudal vertebrae and a femur), so the genus is generally treated as a nomen dubium. Many other species were once assigned to it from South America, Europe and elsewhere, which made it a "wastebasket" genus. Most have since been moved to other genera.