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Khanazeem

Say it: KAN-ah-ZEEM

Name means: “big or titan leader, in honor of several Pakistani leaders named Khan”1

Ate: PlantsLong-necksLate Cretaceous

Khanazeem was a huge, long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now Pakistan. It munched on leaves and ferns with its spoon-shaped teeth. This dinosaur was one of the last sauropods on Earth before the big extinction 66 million years ago.2

Lived

72 to 66 million years ago3

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Balochistan Province, Pakistan1

Food

Plants2

Length

10 to 100 m2

estimate from bone size in the PBDB record

Weight

300 kg to 100 tonnes3

estimate from bone size in the PBDB record

Height

10 to 100 m2

estimate from bone size in the PBDB record

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?

estimate from bone size in the PBDB record

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 17 elephants

as long as 22 cars parked in a rowas long as 560 bananas end to endas heavy as 20000 watermelonsas tall as 18 giraffes standing on each other

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Fun facts

Khanazeem was named in 2022, making it one of the newest dinosaurs discovered.2

Its fossils were found in the Vitakri Formation, which is about 72 to 66 million years old.2

The name Khanazeem honors several Pakistani leaders named Khan, including former Prime Minister Imran Khan.1

This dinosaur belonged to a group called titanosaurs, which were some of the largest land animals ever.2

Khanazeem lived alongside other Pakistani dinosaurs like Pakisaurus and Khetranisaurus.2

Scientists think Khanazeem was a ground-dwelling herbivore that moved slowly on four legs.2

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Scientific name: Khanazeem
Named by: Malkani 20223
Group: Long-necks
Family / clade: Pakisauridae3
Classification: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria3
Age of the rocks: 72 to 66 million years (Maastrichtian)3
Rock formations: Vitakri3
Countries: Pakistan3
Fossil records: 2 in the Paleobiology Database3
Discovery: Khanazeem was named by Pakistani paleontologist Malkani in 2022. The fossils were found in the Bor locality of Balochistan, Pakistan.2 1
Still debated: Scientists are not sure exactly how big Khanazeem grew, because only a few bones have been found so far.2

Where the facts come from

Untitled Document (paleofile.com)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Khanazeem in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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