Pellegrinisaurus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Pellegrinisaurus 25 m (82 ft) long
as long as 15 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 25 m (82 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Pellegrinisaurus (meaning Lizard from Pelligrini) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period. The holotype was found in the Allen Formation, Argentina.
What we know
- Named by Salgado, 1996.
- Body length estimated at about 25 m.
- Fossils found in South America and Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Pellegrinisaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.