Choconsaurus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Choconsaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Choconsaurus (“El Chocón lizard”) is an extinct genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur belonging to the group Titanosauriformes, which lived in the area of present-day Argentina at the end of the Cretaceous.
What we know
- Named by Simón et al. 2017.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Choconsaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.