TITLE:
Geology and Mineral Resources of Some Districts of Pakistan: Recent Found Paleontological Sites and New Titanosaur from Pakistan and First Diplodocid Dinosaur from Indo-Pakistan and Asia
AUTHORS:
Muhammad Sadiq Malkani
KEYWORDS:
Geology, Minerals, Districts, South Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, KP, Fossil Sites, New Titanosaur, First Diplodocid Dinosaur from Indo-Pakistan and Asia
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Geology,
Vol.15 No.10,
October
24,
2025
ABSTRACT: Geology and mineral resources of some districts of Balochistan, South Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) provinces of Pakistan are being presented. Recently found paleontological sites from the marine and terrestrial strata of Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic era of Pakistan; a new titanosaur with some updates on Pakistani titanosaurs; and first diplodocid dinosaur from Indo-Pakistan subcontinent and Asia discovered possibly from the Middle Jurassic red/maroon strata of Shinawari Formation of Pakistan are being described. Safisaur is the first dinosaur from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. Safisaur is the first diplodocid dinosaur from Pakistan and also in Indo-Pakistan Peninsula and Asia.