Outline: a typical sauropod
Saraikimasoom
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Gspsauridae
- Found in
- Pakistan
- Named by
- Malkani 2014
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Saraikimasoom
What it was like
Saraikimasoom 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 Saraikimasoom in 2014. 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 Gspsauridae
Named in: M. S. Malkani. 2014. Titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs from the Latest Cretaceous of Pakistan. Second International Symposium of International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) Project 608 “Cretaceous Ecosystems and Their Responses to Paleoenvironmental Changes in Asia and the Western Pacific”. Abstract Volume