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Argentinosaurus (meaning "lizard from Argentina") is a genus of giant sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina.Although it is only known from fragmentary remains, Argentinosaurus is one of the largest known land animals of all time, perhaps the largest, measuring 30–35 m (98–115 ft) long and weighing 65–80 t (72–88 short tons).
The most important metric for understanding the anatomy of a fossil animal is the types of bones. The completeness statistics for Dreadnoughtus schrani are as follows: 116 bones out of ~256 in the entire skeleton (including the skull) = 45.3% complete; 115 bones out of ~196 in the skeleton (excluding the skull) = 58.7% complete
Sauroposeidon (/ ˌ s ɔːr oʊ p oʊ ˈ s aɪ d ən / SOR-o-po-SY-dən; meaning "lizard earthquake god", after the Greek god Poseidon [3] [4]) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from several incomplete specimens including a bone bed and fossilized trackways that have been found in the U.S. states of Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Texas.
English: Skeletal reconstruction of the giant Argentine titanosaur Argentinosaurus.The holotype, MCF-PVPH 1, [1] consists of six described dorsal vertebrae, another undescribed dorsal vertebra, [2] five sacral vertebrae, an ilium, a pubis, and a fibula. [1]
[13] [14] Wedel also criticised the polygon-based method that Carballido and colleagues used to compare the sizes of Patagotitan and Argentinosaurus ' vertebrae, noting that the former was largely empty space. [15] In other studies, Argentinosaurus has been estimated at 65–96.4 tonnes (71.7–106.3 short tons).
Size of a few specimens compared to a human. Mapusaurus was a large theropod, but slightly smaller in size than its close relative Giganotosaurus, with the largest specimen measuring around 10.2–12.2 metres (33–40 ft) long and weighing up to 3–6 metric tons (3.3–6.6 short tons).
One of the femur (thigh) bones recovered was 2.4 m long, and a humerus had a circumference of 79 cm at the centre of the shaft, and this allowed the animal to be estimated at 37 m long and 70 metric tons in weight. [1] This would make the titanosaur larger than Argentinosaurus, another species of titanosaur. A ridge on the back of one of the ...
Museo Municipal Carmen Funes, or, the Carmen Funes Municipal Museum, is a museum of paleontology in Plaza Huincul, Neuquén Province, Argentina.It is best known for its collection of dinosaur fossils, including the only specimen of the largest recorded dinosaur remains, Argentinosaurus huinculensis, and the only known sauropod embryos, which were discovered at a huge nesting site in Auca ...