Outline: a typical sauropod
Ikqaumishan
Type species Ikqaumishan smqureshi
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Gspsauridae
- Found in
- Pakistan and India
- Named by
- Malkani 2023
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Ikqaumishan
What it was like
Ikqaumishan was named as a titanosaur, a long-necked, four-legged plant eater. It is known from a few scattered bones.
Many scientists doubt it is a separate genus, because the bones are so incomplete.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Pakistan. Its bones come from the Vitakri Formation.
How it was found
Malkani named Ikqaumishan in 2023.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Gspsauridae
Named in: M. S. Malkani. 2023. A glance on the mineral deposits and stratigraphic sequential variations and structures in different sections of Indus Basin (Pakistan): new titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs from the latest Maastrichtian Vitakri Formation of Pakistan. Open Journal of Geology 13(10):1069-1138