Loricosaurus Loricosaurus
"armor lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Loricosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
3 people holding hands
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (71 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Saltasauridae
Loricosaurus (meaning “armor lizard”) is a genus of sauropod represented by a single species, L. scutatus. It is a titanosaur that lived near the end of the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 71 million years ago in the early Maastrichtian, being found in the province of Neuquen, Argentina in the Allen Formation. Due to the presence of armor, at first it was believed that it was an ankylosaur, but today it is considered to be that of a titanosaur.
What we know
- Named by von Huene, 1929.
- Fossils found in Argentina.