Jainosaurus

What it was like

Jainosaurus was a titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater. It is known from a braincase and some limb and back bones, so its exact size is uncertain, but it was a large animal.

Its world

It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now India. Its bones come from the Lameta Formation, where it shared the land with the titanosaur Isisaurus and the horned predator Rajasaurus.

How it was found

Its bones were first described as a species of Antarctosaurus. Hunt and colleagues gave it its own genus in 1995, naming it after an Indian paleontologist.