Outline: a typical sauropod
Marisaurus
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Balochisauridae
- Found in
- Pakistan
- Named by
- Malkani 2003
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Marisaurus
What it was like
Marisaurus was described as a titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater. It is known from scattered bones.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, near the end of the Cretaceous, in what is now Pakistan. It comes from the Vitakri Formation.
How it was found
Malkani named Marisaurus in 2003. Many other paleontologists think the bones are too scrappy to define a genus, so the name is often treated as doubtful.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Balochisauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: M. S. Malkani. 2003. Discovery of partial skull and dentary of Titanosauria (sauropod dinosaur) from the Late Cretaceous Pab Formation of Vitakri area, Barkhan District, Balochistan, Pakistan. Geological Bulletin, University of Peshawar 36:65-71