Epachthosaurus
"heavy lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Epachthosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (95–90 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Epachthosaurus (meaning “heavy lizard”) was a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur, belonging to Lithostrotia, from the Late Cretaceous of Central and Northern Patagonia in South America.
What we know
- Named by Powell, 1990.
- Fossils found in South America and Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Epachthosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.