titanosaur

English

Noun

titanosaur (plural titanosaurs)

1. Any member of the taxonomic groups Titanosauria or Titanosauroidea of diverse sauropod dinosaurs including some of the heaviest creatures ever to walk the earth.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 30:

     But 70 million years ago, near modern-day Asturias in northern Spain, there existed a lagoon, and as the land sank, the sea flooded it at high tide, and the bones of alligators, pterosaurs and dwarf titanosaurs (long-necked sauropod dinosaurs) were buried in the sediment.

Translations

member of the Titanosauria and/or Titanosauroidea

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