Nemegtosaurus
"reptile from the Nemegt"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Nemegtosaurus 13 m (43 ft) long
as long as 8 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 13 m (43 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Nemegtosauridae
Nemegtosaurus (meaning “reptile from the Nemegt”) was a sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. Measuring an estimated 12 – 13 m long and weighing 20 t, it was named after the Nemegt Basin in the Gobi Desert, where the remains — a single skull — were found. The skull resembles diplodocoids in being long and low, with pencil-shaped teeth. However, recent work has shown that Nemegtosaurus is in fact a titanosaur, closely related to animals such as Saltasaurus, Alamosaurus, and Rapetosaurus.
What we know
- Named by Nowinski, 1971.
- Body length estimated at about 13 m.
- Fossils found in Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Nemegtosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.