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search Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 70Ma Scientific
classification e Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Clade:
Dinosauria Suborder: Sauropodomorpha Clade: Titanosauria Clade:
Lithostrotia Family: Antarctosauridae Genus: Isisaurus Wilson &
Upchurch, 2003 Species: I. colberti (Jain & Bandyopadhyay, 1997)
[originally Titanosaurus]  Isisaurus (named after the Indian
Statistical Institute[1]) is a genus of dinosaur from the Late
Cretaceous Period. Isisaurus was a sauropod (specifically a
titanosaur), which lived in what is now India.  The type
specimen of Isisaurus colberti, ISI R 335/1-65, was originally
described and named as Titanosaurus colberti by Sohan Lal Jain
and Saswati Bandyopadhyay in 1997, the specific name honouring
Edwin Harris Colbert,[2][3] but was placed in its own genus, by
Wilson and Upchurch, in 2003.[4] It had a "bizarre" appearance
with a short, vertically directed neck and long forelimbs,[5]
making it considerably different from