Outline: a typical sauropod
Qaikshaheen
Type species Qaikshaheen masoomniazi
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Balochisauridae
- Found in
- Pakistan and India
- Named by
- Malkani 2023
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Qaikshaheen
What it was like
Qaikshaheen 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 Qaikshaheen in 2023. The type species is Qaikshaheen masoomniazi. 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
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