Quetecsaurus rusconii
"fire lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Quetecsaurus 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.
Quetecsaurus (meaning “fire lizard”, from the Milcayac word “quetec”) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous of the southern Mendoza Province, western Argentina. It contains a single species, Quetecsaurus rusconii.
What we know
- Named by González Riga & Ortiz David, 2014.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Quetecsaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.