Rinconsaurus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Rinconsaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (86–83 Mya)
- Place
- Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Rinconsaurus is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous in what is now Argentina. The type species, Rinconsaurus caudamirus, was described by Calvo and Riga in 2003, and is based on three partial skeletons.
What we know
- Named by Calvo & González Riga, 2003.
- Fossils found in Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Rinconsaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.