Dreadnoughtus

Translingual

Size of the type specimen compared with a human

Etymology

From English dreadnought (“type of battleship”).

Proper noun

Dreadnoughtus m

A taxonomic genus within the taxon Titanosauria – a very large dinosaur. [from 2014]

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Reptilia – class; Eureptilia, Romeriida - clades; Diapsida - subclass; Archosauromorpha - infraclass; Archosauria - division; Ornithodira - subsection; Dinosauria - superorder; Saurischia - order; Eusaurischia - taxon; Sauropodomorpha - suborder; Sauropoda - infraorder; Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Macronaria - taxa; Camarasauromorpha - superfamily; Titanosauriformes, Titanosauria - taxa

Hyponyms

(genus): Dreadnoughtus schrani - sole described species

References

Dreadnoughtus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dreadnoughtus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Dreadnoughtus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Dreadnoughtus at Paleobiology Database

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