Jainosaurus septentrionalis Huene and Matley 1933 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Alternative combination: Antarctosaurus septentrionalis

Full reference: F. v. Huene and C. A. Matley. 1933. The Cretaceous Saurischia and Ornithischia of the Central Provinces of India. Palaeontologica Indica (New Series), Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 21(1):1-74

Belongs to Jainosaurus according to J. A. Wilson et al. 2009

See also Casanovas et al. 1987, Chatterjee and Rudra 1996, Curry Rogers 2005, D'Emic et al. 2009, Dhiman et al. 2023, Díez Díaz et al. 2011, Fernández and Khosla 2015, Huene and Matley 1933, Hunt et al. 1995, Jain 1989, Khosla 2021, Khosla and Bajpai 2021, Khosla and Lucas 2023, Khosla and Sahni 2003, Lapparent 1957, Loyal et al. 1996, Malkani 2007, Malkani 2020, Malkani 2020, Mohabey 1996, Mohabey 2001, Mohabey 2001, Mohabey 2005, Mohabey 2011, Mohabey et al. 2013, Mohabey and Udhoji 1996, Pant et al. 1988, Páramo et al. 2020, Powell 2003, Prasad 2012, Prasad and Sahni 1999, Prasad and Sahni 2009, Rozhdestvensky 1977, Sahni 1997, Sakagami and Kawabe 2020, Salgado and Calvo 1997, Steel 1970, Swinton 1947, Tandon 2001, Upchurch et al. 2004, Van Valen 1969, Vianey-Liaud et al. 1988, Vila et al. 2012, Wilson 2002, Wilson and Mohabey 2006 and Wilson et al. 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GSI IM K27/497, a partial skeleton (braincase). Its type locality is Bara Simla, Jabalpur [Sauropod Bed], which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial claystone in the Lameta Formation of India.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Bara Simla, Jabalpur [Sauropod Bed]

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