Karongasaurus Temporal range:
Early Cretaceous,
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Holotype elements: mandible seen from two angles, and three teeth | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | † Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | † Sauropoda |
Clade: | † Macronaria |
Clade: | † Titanosauria |
Genus: | †
Karongasaurus Gomani, 2005 |
Type species | |
Karongasaurus gittelmani Gomani, 2005
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Karongasaurus (meaning Karonga lizard) is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. The type species, K. gittelmani, was described by Elizabeth Gomani in 2005. [1]
The holotype (specimen Mal-175), consisting solely of part of a lower mandible and twenty isolated teeth, were found in the Dinosaur Beds of Malawi between 1987 and 1992. Karongasaurus was the first dinosaur named in a publication that was published solely online; [1] Karongasaurus gittelmani was named and described by Gomani (2005). [1] [2]
The mandible of Karongasaurus is U-shaped in dorsal view and the teeth are described as slender and conical in shape, being more cylindrical than those of Malawisaurus. [1]
Gomani (2005) placed Karongasaurus within Titanosauria. [1]