Genus: Jainosaurus HUNT, LOCKELY, LUCAS & MEYER,
1995 (not 1994)
Etymology:
In honor of Sohan Jain for his contributions to Mesozoic vertebrate
paleontology, and Greek, sauros, “lizard”: Jain’s lizard.
Species: septentrionalis (HUENE & MATLEY, 1933) HUNT, LOCKELY,
LUCAS & MEYER, 1995 (not 1994)
Etymology: Laitn, septentrionalis, "northern"; in reference to the specimen being found in the northern hemisphere.
= Antarctosaurus septentrionalis HUENE, 1932 (nomen nudum)
= Antarctosaurus septentrionalis HUENE & MATLEY,
1933
Etymology:
= Titanosaurus septentrionalis (VON HUENE & MATLEY,
1933)
Lectotype: GSI K27/497
Locality: Sauropod beds, Bara Simla Hill, Jubbulpore, Madhya Pradesh State, India.
Horizon: Lameta Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Maastrichtian Stage, Uppermost Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material: Posterior part of a skull, brain cast, left squamosal, hyoid.
Note: WILSON, D'EMIC, CURRY ROGERS, MOHABEY & SEN, 2009 state that the element described as a left squamosal is undigonistic and the hyoid is lost.
Syntypes:
GSI K20/317: Anterior caudal vertebrae.
GSI K20/326, /425: Dorsal rib shaft fragments.
GSI K27/492, 493, 494, 496: Chevrons.
GSI K27/495: Fragment of rib.
26 other rib fragments, left and right scapulae, right humerus.
GSI K20/647: Sternal plate?
GSI K27/490: Right radius.
GSI K27/491: Fragmentary ulna.
Referred material:
= Jainosaurus cf. septentrionalis WILSON, BARRETT & CARRANO, 2011
NHMUK R5935: Fragment of dorsal rib.
NHMUK R16481: A caudal centrum.
NHMUK R5931: Left humerus.
NHMUK R5932: Proximal part of a right humerus.
NHMUK R5933: Right radius.
NHMUK R5903: An articulated left hind limb including a femur, tibia and fibula.
WILSON, D'EMIC, CURRY ROGERS, MOHABEY & SEN, 2009
ISI R162: Partial braincase.
GSI K20/326, K27/425, no lost: Dorsal rib fragments.
GSI unnumbered: Right and left scapulae.
GSI unnumbered: A right humerus.
GSI K27/490: Radius (now lost).
GSI K27/491: Ulna (now lost).
MATHUR & PANT, 1986Locality: Near Rahioli village in Balasinor Taluka, Kheda District, Gujarat State, India.
Horizon: Lameta Group.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Maastrichtian Stage, Uppermost Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous- Early Paleocene Epoch?, Lower Paleogene Period, Lower Tertiary Subera, Cenozoic Era.
Material:
GSI 20008, 20010, 20012: Right humeri.
GSI 20009, 20011: Left humeri.