| Tharosaurus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Superfamily: | †Diplodocoidea |
| Family: | †Dicraeosauridae |
| Genus: | †Tharosaurus Bajpai et al., 2023 |
| Species: | †T. indicus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tharosaurus indicus Bajpai et al., 2023
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Tharosaurus (meaning "Thar Desert lizard") is an extinct genus of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Jaisalmer Formation of India. The genus contains a single species, T. indicus, known from several vertebrae and a rib. Tharosaurus represents the earliest diplodocoid currently known and the first described from India.[1]
- ^ Bajpai, S.; Datta, D.; Pandey, P.; Ghosh, T.; Kumar, K.; Bhattacharya, D. (2023). "Fossils of the oldest diplodocoid dinosaur suggest India was a major centre for neosauropod radiation". Scientific Reports. 13 (1). 12680. Bibcode:2023NatSR..1312680B. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-39759-2. PMC 10403599. PMID 37542094.