Laplatasaurus
"La Plata lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Laplatasaurus 18 m (59 ft) long
as long as 11 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 18 m (59 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (80–70 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Laplatasaurus (meaning “La Plata lizard”, named for La Plata, Argentina) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in South America, with the holotype and only known specimen found in the Anacleto Formation.
What we know
- Named by von Huene, 1929.
- Body length estimated at about 18 m.
- Fossils found in South America and Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Laplatasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.