Andesaurus anduh-SƆːRUHS
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Andesaurus 15 m (49 ft) long
9 people holding hands
- Length
- 15 m (49 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- South America
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Andesaurus ( ; “Andes lizard”) is a genus of basal titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur which existed during the middle of the Cretaceous Period in South America. Like most sauropods, it would have had a small head on the end of a long neck and an equally long tail.
What we know
- Named by Calvo & Bonaparte, 1991.
- Body length estimated at about 15 m.
- Fossils found in South America.