Malawisaurus
Malawisaurus (meaning "Malawi lizard") is an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur. It is known from the Dinosaur Beds of northern Malawi, which probably date to the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous. The type species is M. dixeyi and the specific name honours Frederick Augustus Dixey.
| Malawisaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous | |
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| Display at the Royal Ontario Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria |
| Clade: | †Titanosauria |
| Clade: | †Lithostrotia |
| Genus: | †Malawisaurus Jacobs et al., 1993 |
| Species: | †M. dixeyi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Malawisaurus dixeyi (Haughton, 1928) [originally Gigantosaurus, preoccupied] | |
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