Macrogryphosaurus
"big enigmatic lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Macrogryphosaurus 6 m (19.7 ft) long
as long as 4 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 6 m (19.7 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Macrogryphosaurus (meaning “big enigmatic lizard”) is a genus of elasmarian dinosaur from the Coniacian age Upper Cretaceous Sierra Barrosa Formation (Neuquén Group) of Argentina in Patagonia. It was described by Jorge Calvo and colleagues in 2007, with M. gondwanicus as the type and only species.
What we know
- Named by Calvo et al. 2007.
- Body length estimated at about 6 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Macrogryphosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.