Outline: a typical sauropod
Khanazeem
Type species Khanazeem saraikistani
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Pakisauridae
- Found in
- Pakistan
- Named by
- Malkani 2022
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Khanazeem
What it was like
Khanazeem was named as a titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater, from a few bones.
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 it in 2022. The type species is Khanazeem saraikistani. Its bones are fragmentary, and many scientists doubt that it can be told apart from other titanosaurs of the region.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Pakisauridae
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