Atsinganosaurus
"gypsy"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Atsinganosaurus 12 m (39 ft) long
as long as 7 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 12 m (39 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (72–70 Mya)
- Place
- Europe · France
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Atsinganosaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur which existed in what is now France during the Late Cretaceous. Well-preserved remains (and the only known) of Atsinganosaurus were collected from the Grès à Reptiles Formation of the Aix-en-Provence Basin. The type and only species is A. velauciensis.
What we know
- Named by Garcia et al., 2010.
- Body length estimated at about 12 m.
- Fossils found in Europe and France.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Atsinganosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.