Titanosaur
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| Titanosaurs Temporal range: Upper Jurassic – Upper Cretaceous |
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| Epachthosaurus skeleton, National Museum, Czech Republic, originally from South America | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Sauropodomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Sauropoda |
| Superfamily: | †Titanosauroidea Lydekker, 1895 |
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Titanosaurs (members of the groups Titanosauria and/or Titanosauroidea) were a diverse group of sauropod dinosaurs.
They were some of the heaviest creatures ever to walk the earth. Titanosaurs included Saltasaurus, Isisaurus, Argentinosaurus and Paralititan. The largest might have weighed up to 100 tonnes (110 short tons) or, perhaps, even double that, if some poorly-described data are to be believed (see Bruhathkayosaurus).
They were named after the mythological Titans, the early deities of Ancient Greece, who preceded the Twelve Olympians.
Together with the brachiosaurs and relatives they make up the larger clade Titanosauriformes.
