Dreadnoughtus schrani Dreadnoughtus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Dreadnoughtus 26 m (85 ft) long
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- Length
- 26 m (85 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (76–70 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Dreadnoughtus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur containing a single species, Dreadnoughtus schrani. It is known from two partial skeletons discovered in Upper Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian, approximately 76–70 million years ago) rocks of the Cerro Fortaleza Formation in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. It is one of the largest terrestrial vertebrates known from reasonably complete remains, with the immature type specimen measuring 26 m in total body length and weighing up to 48–49 metric tons (53–54 short tons).
Dreadnoughtus is known from more complete skeletons than any other gigantic titanosaurian.
What we know
- Named by Lacovara et al., 2014.
- Body length estimated at about 26 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina.