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  • noun Any member of the Titanosauria and/or Titanosauroidea, a diverse group of sauropod dinosaurs including some of the heaviest creatures ever to walk the earth.

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  • noun amphibious quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur with a long thin neck and whiplike tail; of the Cretaceous mostly in the southern hemisphere

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Examples

  • Argentinosaurus huinculensis, named in 1993, is a huge titanosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Río Limay Formation of Argentina: it was perhaps 30 m long.

    Biggest…. sauropod…. ever (part…. I) Darren Naish 2007

  • Argentinosaurus huinculensis, named in 1993, is a huge titanosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Río Limay Formation of Argentina: it was perhaps 30 m long.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007

  • Prehistoric snake gobbled-up dinosaur babies: A fossilized snake has been discovered inside a titanosaur nest in India, leading researchers to conclude that the snake fed on newly-hatched dinosaur babies, rather than their eggs like modern snakes.

    Archive 2010-02-28 Bill Crider 2010

  • Grouping: Macronaria/Titanosauria/basal titanosaur ?

    Life's Time Capsule: MORE Sauropods in Art! Nima 2009

  • Also I'd like to know what everyone here thinks of Andrey Atuchin and Stephen O'Connor, I haven't seen anyone else tackle as many titanosaur paintings as these two, and they both have a lot of talent for creative color schemes and anatomical accuracy.

    Life's Time Capsule: MORE Sauropods in Art! Nima 2009

  • Paralititan stromeri is another massive titanosaur, this time from the Upper Cretaceous of Egypt.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007

  • Paralititan stromeri is another massive titanosaur, this time from the Upper Cretaceous of Egypt.

    Biggest…. sauropod…. ever (part…. I) Darren Naish 2007

  • Grouping: Macronaria/Titanosauria/basal titanosaur

    Archive 2009-09-01 Nima 2009

  • Grouping: Macronaria/Titanosauria/basal titanosaur

    Life's Time Capsule: MORE Sauropods in Art! Nima 2009

  • Grouping: Macronaria/Titanosauria/basal titanosaur or possibly Andesauridae

    Life's Time Capsule: MORE Sauropods in Art! Nima 2009

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  • A model dinosaur made of titanium.

    May 17, 2009