titanosaur
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English
Noun
titanosaur (plural titanosaurs)
- Any member of the taxonomic groups Titanosauria or Titanosauroidea of diverse sauropod dinosaurs including some of the heaviest creatures ever to walk the earth.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 30:
- But 70 million years ago, near modern-day Asturias in northern Spain, there existed a lagoon, and as the land sank, the sea flooded it at high tide, and the bones of alligators, pterosaurs and dwarf titanosaurs (long-necked sauropod dinosaurs) were buried in the sediment.
Translations
member of the Titanosauria and/or Titanosauroidea