SauropodomorphaTitanosauria

Isisaurus colberti

Isisaurus colberti skeletal reconstruction, left lateral view, reconstructed length ~12 m.
Scale bar = 1 meter
Taxon
Isisaurus colberti (Jain & Bandyopadhyay, 1997)
Reconstructed length
~11.7 m (38 feet)
View
Left lateral
Drawing
© Scott Hartman
Drawn
2019, revised 2022
Clade
  1. Sauropodomorpha
  2. Sauropoda
  3. Neosauropoda
  4. Macronaria
  5. Titanosauria

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Isisaurus, hailing from the Late Cretaceous of India, is a distinctive looking titanosaur. With its brachiosaur-like forelimb proportions combined with a thick, unusually short neck, it doesn’t really look like any other sauropod.

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