Outline: a typical sauropod
Nicksaurus
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Saltasauridae
- Found in
- Pakistan
- Named by
- Malkani 2014
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Nicksaurus
What it was like
Nicksaurus 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 2014. 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 Saltasauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: M. S. Malkani. 2014. Dinosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous systems of Pakistan: their paleobiogeographic link. The History of Life: A View from the Southern Hemisphere. 4th International Palaeontological Congress. Abstract Volume