Titanosauria
unranked clade · Bonaparte and Coria 1993 · accepted · extinct
273 descendant taxa · 798 fossil sites · 170 formations · 45 countries
Lived when
Jurassic – Paleogene
174.7–66 million years ago
Found where
45 countries
170 rock formations
Fossil record
798 sites
124 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 109 million years, from 174.7 to 66 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 66 million years old — that is roughly 220 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Titanosauria was named in 1993 (Bonaparte and Coria 1993) — 33 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 45 countries and 170 named rock formations.
- 124 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 273 named taxa, including 121 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).