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Sulaimanisaurus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superorder
  
Dinosauria

Infraorder
  
Sauropoda

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Saurischia

Class
  
Sauropsida

Suborder
  
Sauropodomorpha

Family
  
Pakisauridae

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Balochisaurus, Vitakridrinda, Pakisaurus, Xuanhuaceratops, Lamaceratops

Sulaimanisaurus (meaning "Sulaiman lizard", for the Sulaiman foldbelt) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Balochistan, western Pakistan (also spelled "Sulaimansaurus" in some early reports). The type species is S. gingerichi, described by M. Sadiq Malkani in 2006, and it is based on seven tail vertebra, found in the Maastrichtian-age Vitakri Member of the Pab Formation. Four additional tail vertebrae have been assigned to it.

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Sulaimanisaurus Wikipedia