Argyrosaurus ɑːrjeyeroh-SƆːRUHS

You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Argyrosaurus 17 m (56 ft) long
as long as 10 people standing fingertip to fingertip
Length
17 m (56 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (70–66 Mya)
Place
Argentina
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.

Argyrosaurus ( ) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that lived about 70 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Argentina.

What we know

  • Named by Lydekker, 1893.
  • Body length estimated at about 17 m.
  • Fossils found in Argentina.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Argyrosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.