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.