Crossword clues for titanosaur
Wiktionary
n. Any member of the Titanosauria and/or Titanosauroidea, a diverse group of sauropod dinosaurs including some of the heavy creatures ever to walk the earth.
WordNet
n. amphibious quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur with a long thin neck and whiplike tail; of the Cretaceous mostly in the southern hemisphere [syn: titanosaurian]
Wikipedia
Titanosaurs (members of the group Titanosauria) were a diverse group of sauropod dinosaurs, which included Saltasaurus and Isisaurus. When the extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period occurred, they were the last surviving group of long necked dinosaurs. It includes some of the heaviest creatures ever to walk the earth, such as Argentinosaurus and Puertasaurus, which are estimated to have weighed up to . The group's name refers to the much earlier discovery Titanosaurus, a now dubious genus named for the mythological Titans of Ancient Greece. Together with the brachiosaurids and relatives, titanosaurs make up the larger clade Titanosauriformes.
Usage examples of "titanosaur".
Jason Poole and Egyptian geologist Yousry Attia, along with a team of local laborers, spent weeks expanding the titanosaur site to seven times its original size but came up with nothing new of significance.
Stromer’s type specimen consisted of back and tail vertebrae, a shoulder blade, and several limb bones, and was, at the time, one of the most complete skeletons of a titanosaur known.