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Balochisaurus

Say it: ba-LOH-kee-SORE-us

Name means: “Baloch lizard”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksLate Cretaceous

Balochisaurus was a huge, long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now Pakistan. It munched on leaves and ferns with its tiny teeth, and its long tail helped it balance.1

Lived

72 to 66 million years ago3

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Balochistan, Pakistan1

Food

Plants1

Length

10 to 100 m1

estimate from PBDB adult length range

Weight

12 tonnes2

estimate

Height

4 m2

hip height estimate

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

How tall was it?

hip height estimate

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 2 elephants

as long as 22 cars parked in a rowas long as 560 bananas end to endas heavy as 8 carsas heavy as 2400 watermelonsas tall as 2 doors stacked up

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Balochisaurus lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous.1

Its fossils were found in the Vitakri Formation in Pakistan, a place that was once a river floodplain.1

The type specimen of Balochisaurus is a set of vertebrae (back bones) discovered at a site called Mari Bohri.1

Balochisaurus belongs to the group Titanosauria, which includes some of the biggest dinosaurs ever.1

Scientists think Balochisaurus was a ground-dwelling, egg-laying dinosaur that moved around on four legs.1

The name Balochisaurus comes from the Baloch region of Pakistan, where the fossils were dug up.1

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Scientific name: Balochisaurus
Named by: Malkani 20043
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Balochisauridae3
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria3
Age of the rocks: 72 to 66 million years (Maastrichtian)3
Rock formations: Vitakri3
Countries: Pakistan3
Fossil records: 12 in the Paleobiology Database3
Discovery: Balochisaurus was named by Pakistani paleontologist M. S. Malkani in 2004, based on vertebrae found in the Vitakri Formation of Balochistan, Pakistan.1
Still debated: Scientists are not sure exactly how big Balochisaurus was, because only a few vertebrae have been found so far.1

Where the facts come from

PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Balochisaurus | Part of the Sauropod Family of Dinosaurs (dinosaurmadness.com)
Balochisaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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