Pitekunsaurus
"to discover"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Pitekunsaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (100–66 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Pitekunsaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Anacleto Formation of Neuquén, Argentina. It was described by L. Filippi and A. Garrido in 2008. The type species is P. macayai. The generic name is derived from Mapudungun pitekun, meaning “to discover”, the epitheton honours the discoverer, oil company explorer Luis Macaya, who found the fossil in April 2004.
What we know
- Named by Filippi & Garrido, 2008.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Pitekunsaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.