Menucocelsior arriagadai
"the taller one from Salitral Ojo del Agua"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Menucocelsior 8 m (26.2 ft) long
as long as 5 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 8 m (26.2 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Menucocelsior (meaning “the taller one from Salitral Ojo del Agua”) is a genus of medium-sized titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Allen Formation of Argentina. The type and only species is Menucocelsior arriagadai.
What we know
- Named by Rolando et al. 2022.
- Body length estimated at about 8 m.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Menucocelsior — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.