FAMILIENLISTE / Titanosauria

Bonaparte, Coria, 1993

 

Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Macronaria Titanosauriformes Titanosauria

Die Titanosauria ("Titanenechsen") waren eine sehr große Gruppe von Sauropoden, die auf der ganzen Welt verbreitet waren. Sie gehörten zu den letzten großen langhalsigen, pflanzenfressenden Dinosauriern und lebten am Ende der Kreidezeit vor etwa 90 bis 66 Millionen Jahren. Bei einigen Funden sind Spuren einer Hautpanzerung wie Dornen oder Knochenplatten entdeckt worden, was die Titanosaurier somit auch äußerlich deutlich von den meisten Sauropoden unterscheidet. Auch eines der größten Landtiere die je lebten, der Argentinosaurus, gehört zu dieser Familie von Dinosauriern, die längst nicht alle, wie der Name vermuten lässt, sehr große Tiere waren.

Durchschnittlich wurden Titanosaurier etwa 15 Meter lang. Vollständig erhaltene Schädel sind nur von einigen Titanosauriern bekannt. Sie ähneln in ihrer Form aber denen der Diplodocoidea. Die Schnauze war lang mit hoch im Schädel befindlichen Nasenöffnungen in Höhe der Augenhöhlen. So wurden denn auch die Titanosaurier bis Ende der 1990er Jahre als mit den Diplodocoidea verwandte Gruppe betrachtet. Einige Merkmale der Titanosauria sind: Die Wirbelknochen sind insgesamt niedriger und breiter als bei anderen Sauropoden, die Füße besaßen im Gegensatz zu den Händen gekrümmte Krallen, auf dem Rücken befanden sich Osteoderme. Aus Argentinien ist der Fund eines Nistplatzes mit mehr als 1000 Eiern bekannt. Jedes Nest enthielt im Durchschnitt 25 Eier von etwa 12 Zentimetern Durchmesser. Einige dieser Eier enthielten sogar noch Embryonen, von denen sogar Hautabdrücke erhalten sind. Die Hautabdrücke zeigten, das sich schon auf dem Rücken der Jungtiere eine Art knöcherner Schutzschild aus Osteodermen befand.

Titanosauriformes
-Titanosauria
. Abdarainurus
. Aegyptosaurus
. Adamantisaurus
. Alamosaurus
. Antarctosaurus
. Argyrosaurus
. Atacamatitan
. Australotitan
. Baalsaurus
. Barrosasaurus
. Baurutitan
. Borealosaurus
. Brasilotitan
. Choconsaurus
. Chubutisaurus
. Daxiatitan
. Dongyangosaurus
. Drednoughtus
. Epachthosaurus
. Gandititan
. Hamititan
. Isisaurus
. Jainosaurus
. Kaijutitan
. Karongasaurus
. Laplatasaurus
. Magyarosaurus
. Malarguesaurus
. Mansourasaurus
. Marisaurus
. Menucocelsior
. Ninjatitan
. Notocolossus
. Paralititan
. Petrobrasaurus
. Savannasaurus
. Sonidosaurus
. Tiamat
. Vahiny
. Qingxiusaurus
. Yeneen
- Zhuchengtitan
- Titanosauridae
-. Andesaurus
-. Atacamatitan
-- Lithostrotia, Upchurch, Barrett, Dodson, 2004
--. Arackar
--. Austroposeidon
--. Bustingorrytitan
--. Chucarosaurus
--. Diamantinasaurus
--. Elaltitan
--. Gondwanatitan
--. Inawentu
--. Malawisaurus
--. Mnyamawamtuka
--. Narambuenatitan
--. Paludititan
--. Petrustitan
--. Phosphatotitan
--. Sarmientosaurus
--. Shingopana
--. Tengrisaurus
--. Titanomachya
--. Uriash
--. Volgatitan
---Lirainosaurinae
---. Ampelosaurus
---. Atsinganosaurus
---. Garrigatitan
---. Lirainosaurus
---- Lognkosauria, Calvo, Porfiri, González Riga, Kellner, 2007
----. Argentinosaurus
----. Drusilasaura
----. Futalognkosaurus
----. Jiangxititan
----. Mendozasaurus
----. Patagotitan
----. Puertasaurus
----. Traukutitan
----. Quetecsaurus
----- Saltasauroidea
-----. Udelartitan
------ Saltasauridae, Sereno, 1998
------. Igai
------. Opisthocoelicaudia
------. Pellegrinisaurus
------- Saltasaurinae
-------. Abditosaurus
-------. Bonatitan
-------. Ibirania
-------. Neuquensaurus
-------. Rocasaurus
-------. Yamanasaurus
-------- Lohuecosauria, Mocho, Escaso, Marcos-Fernández, Páramo, Sanz, Vidal, Ortega, 2024
Die Lohuecosauria werden phylogenetisch definiert als Saltasaurus loricatus, Lohuecotitan pandafilandi, ihr jüngster gemeinsamer Vorfahre und alle seine Nachkommen.
--------. Lohuecotitan
--------. Qunkasaura
--------. Saltasaurus

---------Rinconsauria
--------. Chadititan
--------. Muyelensaurus
--------. Rinconsaurus (Typ)

 

 

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A juvenile Diamantinasaurus matildae (Dinosauria: Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, with implications for sauropod ontogeny /Rigby et al., 2022 / Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e2047991 /PDF

A Spanish saltasauroid titanosaur reveals Europe as a melting pot of endemic and immigrant sauropods in the Late Cretaceous / Pedro Mocho, Fernando Escaso, Fátima Marcos-Fernández, Adrián Páramo, José Luis Sanz, Daniel Vidal, Francisco Ortega, 2024 / Communication Biology, Volume 7, 1016 (2024) /PDF

A new African Titanosaurian Sauropod Dinosaur from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation (Mtuka Member), Rukwa Rift Basin, Southwestern Tanzania / Eric Gorscak, Patrick M. O’Connor, 2019 / PLoS ONE 14(2): e0211412 /PDF

Andesaurus delgadoi gen. et sp. nov. (Saurischia-Sauropoda), dinosaurio Titanosauridae de la Formacion Rio Limay (Albiano-Cenomaniano), Neuquén, Argentina / Jorge O. Calvo, José F. Bonaparte, 1991 / Ameghiniana, 28: 303-310

Appendicular skeleton and dermal armour of the Late Cretaceous titanosaur Lirainosaurus astibiae (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from Spain / Verónica Díez Díaz, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, José Luis Sanz, 2013 / Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 16, Issue 2; 19A

A Basal Lithostrotian Titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) with a Complete Skull: Implications for the Evolution and Paleobiology of Titanosauria / Rubén D. F. Martínez, Matthew C. Lamanna, Fernando E. Novas, Ryan C. Ridgely, Gabriel A. Casal, Javier E. Martínez, Javier R. Vita, Lawrence M. Witmer, 2016 / PLoS ONE 11(4): e0151661 /PDF

A Complete Skull of an Early Cretaceous Sauropod and the Evolution of Advanced Titanosaurians / Hussam Zaher, Diego Pol, Alberto B. Carvalho, Paulo M. Nascimento, Claudio Riccomini, Peter Larson, Rubén Juarez-Valieri, Ricardo Pires-Domingues, Nelson Jorge da Silva Jr., Diógenes de Almeida Campos, 2011 / PLoS ONE 6(2): e16663 /PDF

A Gigantic, Exceptionally Complete Titanosaurian Sauropod Dinosaur from Southern Patagonia, Argentina / Lacovara et al., 2014 / Scientific Reports 4, Article number: 6196 /PDF

A gigantic new dinosaur from Argentina and the evolution of the sauropod hind foot / Bernardo J. González Riga, Matthew C. Lamanna, Leonardo D. Ortiz David, Jorge O. Calvo, Juan P. Coria, 2016 / Scientific Reports 6, Nr. 19165 (2016) /PDF

A nearly complete skull of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Australia and implications for the early evolution of titanosaurs / Poropat et a., 2023 / Royal Society Open Science, Volume 10, Issue 4 / PDF

A new basal titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil / Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Leonardo Salgado, Rafael Matos Lindoso, Hermínio Ismael de Araújo-Júnior, Francisco Cezar Costa Nogueira, Jose Agnelo Soares, 2017 / Journal of South American Earth Sciences 75

A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia / Scott A. Hocknull​, Melville Wilkinson, Rochelle A. Lawrence, Vladislav Konstantinov, Stuart Mackenzie, Robyn Mackenzie, 2021 / PeerJ 9:e11317 PDF

A New Giant Titanosauria (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous Bauru Group, Brazil / Kamila L. N. Bandeira, Felipe Medeiros Simbras, Elaine Batista Machado, Diogenes de Almeida Campos, Gustavo R. Oliveira, Alexander W. A. Kellner, 2016 / PLoS ONE 11(10): e0163373 /PDF

A new gigantic titanosaurian sauropod from the early Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Neuquén Province, Argentina / María Edith Simón, Leonardo Salgado, 2023 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Vol. 68, Issue 4, 2023. /PDF

A new lithostrotian titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Transbaikalia, Russia / Alexander Averianov, Pavel Skutschas, 2017 / Biological Communications, [S.l.], v. 62, n. 1, p. 6–18, apr.

A new nanoid titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil / Navarro et al, 2022 / Ameghiniana. 59 (5): 317–354

A new sauropod titanosaur from the Plottier Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Patagonia (Argentina) / Leonardo S. Filippi, José Ignacio Canudo, Leonardo J. Salgado, Alberto C. Garrido, Rodolfo A. Garcia, Ignacio A. Cerda, Alejandro Otero, 2011 / Geologica Acta, Vol. 9, Nr. 1, March 2011, 1-12 /PDF

A new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mendoza / Province, Argentina / Bernardo J. González-Riga, 2013 / Ameghiniana (Rev. Asoc. Paleontol. Argent.) - 40 (2): 155–172. Buenos Aires, 30-06-2003

A new titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of North Patagonia, Argentina / Leonardo S. Filippi, Rodolfo A. García, Alberto C. Garrido, 2011 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (3), 2011: 505-520 /PDF

A new titanosaur sauropod from the Atacama Desert, Chile / Alexander W.A. Kellner, David Rubilar-Rogers, Alexander Vargas, Mario Suarez, 2011 / An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc. vol.83 no.1 Rio de Janeiro Mar. 2011 /PDF

A new titanosaur sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil / Elaine B. Machado, Leonardo Dos S. Avilla, William R. Nava, Diogenes De A. Campos, Alexander W.A. Kellner, 2013 / Zootaxa, [S.l.], v. 3701, n. 3, p. 301–321, aug. 2013. ISSN 1175-5334

A new titanosaur sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Neuquen, Patagonia, Argentina / Jorge O. Calvo, Bernardo J. Gonzales-Riga, Juan D. Porfiri, 2007 / Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, v.65, n.4, p.485-504, out./dez.2007 / ISSN 0365-4508

A New Titanosaurian Braincase from the Cretaceous “Lo Hueco” Locality in Spain Sheds Light on Neuroanatomical Evolution within Titanosauria / Fabien Knoll, Lawrence M. Witmer, Ryan C. Ridgely, Francisco Ortega, Jose Luis Sanz, 2015 / PLoS ONE 10(10): e0138233 /PDF

A New Titanosaurian Sauropod from the Hekou Group (Lower Cretaceous) of the Lanzhou-Minhe Basin, Gansu Province, China / Li-Guo Li, Da-Qing Li, Hai-Lu You, Peter Dodson, 2014 / PLoS ONE 9(1): e85979 /PDF

A new titanosaurian sauropod from the Late Cretaceous strata of Shan-dong Province / Mo Jinyou, Wang Kebai,Chen Shuqing, Wang Peiye, Xu Xing, 2017 / Geological Bulletin of China, 36(9): 1501-1505

A New Titanosaurian Sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, Southern China / Jin-You Mo, Qiong-Yao Fu, Yi-Lun Yu, Xing Xu, 2023 / Historical Biology /PDF

A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China / Fenglu Han, Ling Yang, Fasheng Lou, Corwin Sullivan, Xing Xu, Wenjiang Qiu, Hanfeng Liu, Juan Yu, Rui Wu, Yuzheng Ke, Mengyuan Xu, Jinfeng Hu, Pikun Lu, 2024 / Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Volume 22, 2024 - Issue 1

A revision of Titanosaurus Lydekker (Dinosauria-Sauropoda), the first dinosaur genus with a Gondwanan distribution / Jeffrey A. Wilson, Paul Upchurch, 2003 / Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 01/2003

A Titanosaurian Sauropod with South American Affinities (Lognkosauria: Argentinosauridae) from the Late Maastrichtian of Morocco and Evidence for Dinosaur Endemism in Africa / Nicholas R. Longrich, Agustín Pérez-Moreno, Verónica Díez Díaz, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, Nathalie Bardet, Nour-Eddine Jalil, 2026 / Diversity 18(5): 241 /PDF

An associated partial skeleton of Jainosaurus cf. septentrionalis (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Chhota Simla, Central India / Jeffrey A. Wilson, Paul M. Barrett, Matthew T. Carrano, 2011 / Palaeontology, Vol. 54, Part 5, 2011, pp. 981–998

Anatomy of Futalognkosaurus dukei Calvo, Porfiri, González Riga, & Kellner, 2007 (Dinosauria, Titanosauridae) from the Neuquen Group, Late Cretaceous, Patagonia, Argentina / Jorge O. Calvo, Juan D. Porfiri, Bernardo J. González Riga, Alexander W. A. Kellner, 2007 / Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, v.65, n.4, p.511-526

Baalsaurus mansillai gen. et sp. nov. a new titanosaurian sauropod (Late Cretaceous) from Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina / Jorge O. Calvo, Bernardo Gonzales Riga, 2018 / Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, Epub Dec 17, 2018 /PDF

Barrosasaurus casamiquelai gen. et sp. nov., a new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Anacleto Formation (Late Cretaceous: early Campanian) of Sierra Barrosa (Neuquén, Argentina) / Leonardo Salgado, Rodolfo A. Coria, 2009 / Zootaxa, 2009, 2222: 1-16

Bonitasaura salgadoi gen. et sp. nov.: a beaked sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia / Sebastián Apesteguía, 2004 / Naturwissenschaften (2004) 91:493

Braincase anatomy of the titanosaurian sauropod Lirainosaurus astibiae from the Late Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula / Verónica Díez Díaz, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, mJosé Luis Sanz, 2011 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (3), 2011: 521-533 /PDF

Constraining Morphologies of Soft Tissues in Extinct Vertebrates Using Multibody Dynamic Simulations: A Case Study on Articular Cartilage of the Sauropod Dreadnoughtus / Kristyn K. Voegele, Matthew F. Bonnan, Sorin Siegler, Christopher R. Langel, Kenneth J. Lacovara, 2022 / Front. Earth Sci. 10:786247 /PDF

Cranial anatomy and phylogenetic position of the titanosaurian sauropod Bonitasaura salgadoi / Pablo A. Gallina, Sebastián Apesteguía, 2011 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (1), 2011: 45-60 /PDF

Dermal armor histology of Saltasaurus loricatus, an Upper Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur from Northwest Argentina / Ignacio A. Cerda, Jaime E. Powell, 2010 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55 (3), 2010: 389-398 /PDF

Description of a titanosaurid caudal series from the Bauru Group, Late Cretaceous of Brazil / Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner, Diogenes de Almeida Campos, Marcelo N. F. Trotta, 2005 / Arquivos do Museu Nacional. Rio de Janeiro. Bd. 63, Nr. 3, 2005

Downsizing a giant: re-evaluating Dreadnoughtus body mass / Karl T. Bates, Peter L. Falkingham, Sophie Macaulay, Charlotte Brassey, Susannah C. R. Maidment, 2015 / The Royal Society, Volume: 11 Issue: 6 /PDF

Drusilasaura deseadensis gen. et sp. nov., a new titanosaur (Dinosauria-Sauropoda), of the Bajo Barreal Formation, Upper Cretaceous of north of Santa Cruz, Argentina / Cesar Navarrete, Gabriel Casal, Rubén Martínez, 2011 / Rev. bras. paleontol. 14(1):1-14, Janeiro/Abril 2011 / Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia doi:10.4072/rbp.2011.1.01

Evidence of Reproductive Stress in Titanosaurian Sauropods Triggered by an Increase in Ecological Competition / Albert G. Sellés, Bernat Vila, Àngel Galobart, 2017 / Scientific Reports volume 7, Article number: 13827PDF

First astragalus of a titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the latest Cretaceous of India and the evolution of the sauropod tarsus / Jeffrey A. Wilson Mantilla, Paulo Martins, Bandana Samant, Dhananjay M. Mohabey, 2025 / Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 38(1): 1–15 /PDF

Giants and Bizarres: Body Size of Some Southern South American Cretaceous Dinosaurs / Gerardo v. Mazzetta, Per Christiansen, Richard A. Farin, 2004 / Historical Biology 16 (2-4): 71–83

Giant titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia / Fernando E. Novas, Leonardo Salgado, Jorge Calvo, Federico Agnolin, 2004 / Revisto del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, n.s. 7 (1): 37–41

How Common Are Lesions on the Tails of Sauropods? Two New Pathologies in Titanosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Argentine Patagonia / Penélope Cruzado-Caballero, Leonardo Sebastián Filippi, Javier González-Dionis, José Ignacio Canudo, 2023 / Diversity 2023, 15, 464 /PDF

Kaijutitan maui, a sauropod titanosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Sierra Barrosa Formation, Neuquén Basin) of northern Patagonia Argentina: histological and taphonomic considerations / Leonardo Sebastián Filippi, Elena Previtera, Alberto Carlos Garrido, 2024 / Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 24(1): 129–148 /PDF

Late Cretaceous vertebrates from Bajo de Santa Rosa (Allen Formation), Rio Negro province, Argentina, with the description of a new sauropod dinosaur (Titanosauridae) / A. Martinelli, A. M. Forasiepi, 2004 / Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 6(2), pp 257-305

Los Saurisquios y Ornitisquios del Cretaceo Argentino / Friedrich von Huene, 1929 / Anales del Museo de la Plata, 2 (3), pp. 1 - 196, 1929

March of the Titans: The Locomotor Capabilities of Sauropod Dinosaurs / William Irvin Sellers, Lee Margetts, Rodolfo Aníbal Coria, Phillip Lars Manning, 2013 / PLoS ONE 8(10): e78733./PDF

New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography / Poropat et al., 2016 / Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 34467 (2016) /PDF - ergänzende Informationen: PDF

New fossiliferous locality from the Anacleto Cretaceous, Campanian) from northern Patagonia description of a new titanosaur / Agnolin et al., 2025 / Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, 26(2): 217-259 /PDF

New information on the Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs of Zhejiang Province, China: impact on Laurasian titanosauriform phylogeny and biogeography / Philip D. Mannion, Paul Upchurch, Xingsheng Jin, Wenjie Zheng, 2019 /Royal Society Open Science, 6(8) 2019, 191057PDF

New Late Cretaceous titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg clutches from lower Narmada valley, India: Palaeobiology and taphonomy / Harsha Dhiman, Vishal Verma, Lourembam R. Singh, Vaibhav Miglani, Deepak Kumar Jha, Prasanta Sanyal, Sampat K. Tandon, Guntupalli V. R. Prasad, 2023 / PLoS ONE 18(1): e0278242 /PDF

New material of an Early Cretaceous titanosaurid sauropod dinosaur from Malawi / Louis L. Jacobs, Dale A. Winkler, William R. Downs, Elisabeth M. Gomani, 1993 / Palaeontology, Vol. 36, Part 3, 1193, pp. 523-534

New Mid-Cretaceous (Latest Albian) Dinosaurs from Winton, Queensland, Australia / Scott A. Hocknull, Matt A. White, Travis R. Tischler, Alex G. Cook, Naomi D. Calleja, Trish Sloan, David A. Elliott, 2009 / PLoS ONE 4(7): e6190 /PDF

New remains attributable to the holotype of the sauropod dinosaur Neuquensaurus australis, with implications for saltasaurine systematics / Michael D. D’Emic, Jeffrey A. Wilson, 2011 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (1), 2011: 61-73 / PDF

New specimens of Baurutitan britoi and a taxonomic reassessment of the titanosaur dinosaur fauna (Sauropoda) from the Serra da Galga Formation (Late Cretaceous) of Brazil / Julian C. G. Silva Junior​, Agustín G. Martinelli, Thiago S. Marinho, João Ismael da Silva, Max C. Langer, 2022 / PeerJ 10:e14333 /PDF

Note on new late Cretaceous Titanosauria records from the Bauru group (Paraná basin) of southern Goiás state, Brazil / Lívia Motta Gil, Carlos Roberto dos Anjos Candeiro, Stephen Louis Brusatte, Kamila Luisa Bandeira, Luciano da Silva Vidal, 2026 /PDF

Nuevos restos fósiles de Mendozasaurus neguyelap (Sauropoda, Titanosauria) del Cretácico Tardío de Mendoza, Argentina (Original Abhandlung, spanisch) / Bernardo J. González Riga, 2005 / Ameghiniana, jun./sept. 2005, vol.42, no.3, p.535-548. ISSN 0002-7014

Paleobiology of Titanosaurs: Reproduction, Development, Histology, Pneumaticity, Locomotion and Neuroanatomy from the South American Fossil Record / García et al., 2015 / Ameghiniana 52: 29–68

Photographic Atlas and Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of the Holotype Skull of Euhelopus zdanskyi with Description of Additional Cranial Elements / Stephen F. Poropat, Benjamin P. Kear, 2013 / PLoS ONE 8(11): e79932/PDF

Preservation of large titanosaur sauropods in overbank fluvial facies: A case study in the Cretaceous of Argentina / Bernardo J. González Riga, Ricardo A. Astini, 2007 / Journal of South American Earth Sciences 23 (2007) 290–303

Reassessment of Sauropod Dinosaur Jainosaurus (="Antarctosaurus") Septentrionalis from the Upper Cretaceous of India / Jeffrey A. Wilson et al., 2009 / Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 17-40

Revision of MUCPv 204, a Senonian basal titanosaur from northern Patagonia / Ruben D. Juarez Valieri, Jorge Orlando Calvo, 2011 / Paleontología y Dinosaurios desde América Latina, pp.143-152

Revision of Romanian sauropod dinosaurs reveals high titanosaur diversity and body-size disparity on the latest Cretaceous Haţeg Island, with implications for titanosaurian biogeography / Verónica Díez Díaz, Philip D. Mannion, Zoltán Csiki-Sava, Paul Upchurch, 2025 / Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Volume 23, 2025 - Issue 1 /PDF

Sauropod Dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of Malawi, Africa / Elizabeth M. Gomani, 2005 / Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, PE Article Number: 8.1.27

Species Richness and Evidence of Random Patterns in Assemblages of South American Titanosauria during the Late Cretaceous (Campanian - Maastrichtian) / Vieira et al., 2014 / PLoS ONE 9(9): e108307 /PDF

Stratigraphic and anatomical evidence for multiple titanosaurid dinosaur taxa in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of southwestern North America / Gregory S. Paul, 2025 / Geology of the Intermountain West, Volume 12, p. 201-220 /PDF

Titanosaur Osteoderms from the Upper Cretaceous of Lo Hueco (Spain) and Their Implications on the Armor of Laurasian Titanosaurs / Daniel Vidal, Francisco Ortega, José Luis Sanz, 2014 / PLoS ONE 9(8): e102488 /PDF

Titanosauria of the Bauru Group: a summary of records and their importance for understanding the diversity of the clade in Brazil / Edna Gomes Nascimento, Carlos Roberto A. Candeiro, Luciano Vidal, Emerson Ferreira Oliveira, Tamires Carmo Dias, Stephen Brusatte, 2025 / Andean Geology, Volume 52, No. 3, pp 343-362/PDF

The appendicular skeleton of Neuquensaurus, a Late Cretaceous saltasaurine sauropod from Patagonia, Argentina / Alejandro Otero, 2010 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55 (3): 399–426 /PDF

The braincase of Malawisaurus dixeyi (Sauropoda: Titanosauria): A 3D reconstruction of the brain endocast and inner ear / Kate A. Andrzejewski, Michael J. Polcyn, Dale A. Winkler, Elizabeth Gomani Chindebvu, Louis L. Jacobs, 2019
PLoS ONE 14(2): e0211423 /PDF

The first giant titanosaurian sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of North America / Denver W. Fowler, Robert M. Sullivan, 2011 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (4), 2011: 685-690 / PDF

The internal anatomy of titanosaur osteoderms from the Upper Cretaceous of Spain is compatible with a role in oogenesis /Daniel Vidal, Francisco Ortega, Francisco Gascó, Alejandro Serrano-Martínez, José Luis Sanz, 2017
Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 42035 () /PDF

The titanosaur sauropods from the late Campanian–early Maastrichtian Allen Formation of Salitral Moreno, Río Negro, Argentina / Rodolfo A. Garcia, Leonardo Salgado, 2013 / Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 (2), 2013: 269-284 /PDF

Uberabatitan ribeiroi, a new titanosaur from the Marília Formation (Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous), Minas Gerais, Brazil / Leonardo Salgado, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, 2008 / Palaeontology 51 (4): 881–901

Un nouveau genre de dinosaure sauropode de la formation des Grès supérieurs (Aptien-Albien) du Laos / Allain et al., 1999 / Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 329 (8): 609 - 616

Vahiny depereti, gen. et sp. nov., a New Titanosaur (dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Madagascar / Kristina Curry Rogers, Jeffrey A. Wilson, 2014 / Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 05/2014; 34(3):606-617

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Osteodermen eines Titanosauriers aus Lo Hueco, Spanien / © Vidal et al.:
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