†family Titanosauridae Lydekker 1885 (titanosaurid)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Titanosauridae

Synonym: Antarctosauridae Olshevsky 1978

Full reference: R. Lydekker. 1885. The Reptilia & Amphibia of the Maleria & Denwa Groups. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica, Series IV. Indian Pretertiary Vertebrata 1(5):1-38

Parent taxon: Titanosauria according to B. J. González Riga et al. 2009

See also Apesteguía 2005, Bakker 1986, Benton 1990, Bonaparte 1978, Bonaparte 1980, Bonaparte 1996, Bonaparte 1999, Bonaparte and Coria 1993, Calvo and González Riga 2003, Calvo et al. 2007, Calvo et al. 2007, Carroll 1988, Charig 1967, Colbert 1964, de Almeida et al. 2004, Dong 1998, Galton 1977, Gilmore 1946, González-Riga 2003, Hoffet 1942, Huene 1927, Huene 1927, Huene 1927, Huene 1929, Huene 1929, Huene 1948, Huene 1959, Huene and Matley 1933, Hunt et al. 1995, Jacobs et al. 1993, Kuhn 1946, Kuhn 1966, Lapparent 1947, Lydekker 1885, Lydekker 1893, Madsen and Miller 1979, Marsh 1895, Marsh 1896, Marsh 1898, Martinelli and Forasiepi 2004, McIntosh 1990, McIntosh 1997, Molnar 1992, Moser et al. 2006, Novas et al. 2005, Ostrom 1980, Parsch 1963, Powell 1987, Powell 2003, Reig 1970, Romer 1956, Romer 1966, Roxo 1937, Rozhdestvensky 1977, Russell 1984, Salgado 2003, Salgado et al. 1997, Salgado and Coria 2005, Santucci and Bertini 2001, Smith et al. 2001, Swinton 1936, Swinton 1970, Upchurch 1995, Upchurch 1995, Upchurch 1997 and Young 1958

Sister taxa: Abdarainurus, Aegyptosaurus, Andesauridae, Andesauroidea, Andesaurus, Argyrosaurinae, Argyrosaurus, Baalsaurus, Balochisauridae, Baotianmansaurus, Barrosasaurus, Borealosaurus, Choconsaurus, Colossosauria, Dgkhansaurus, Dongyangosaurus, Dzharatitanis, Eutitanosauria, Gandititan, Hamititan, Karongasaurus, Laplatasaurus, Lithostrotia, Malakhelisaurus, Malarguesaurus, Mnyamawamtuka, Mongolosaurus, Narambuenatitan, Ninjatitan, Pashtosaurus, Petrobrasaurus, Poripuchia, Pseudomegaloolithus, Rukwatitan, Teratopodus, Titanopodus, Titanosaurus, Titanosaurus indicus

Subtaxa: Antarctosaurinae Hypselosaurus Megaloolithidae Titanosaurinae

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Type: Titanosaurus

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Argentina (47 collections), Australia (1), Bolivia (4), Brazil (25), Chile (6), China (2), France (78), India (41), Kazakhstan (3), Kenya (1), Madagascar (4), Malawi (2), Mali (1), Mexico (2), Morocco (4), Niger (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), Romania (8), South Africa (1), South Korea (1), Spain (66), Sudan (2), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (7: New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Uruguay (18)

• Jurassic of France (3)

Total: 332 collections including 371 occurrences

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