Sarmientosaurus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Sarmientosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Cretaceous (145–66 Mya)
- Place
- South America · Argentina
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Sarmientosaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur belonging to the Titanosauria. It lived in what is now South America, specifically Argentina, during the Upper Cretaceous Period about 95 million years ago. The type species is Sarmientosaurus musacchioi.
What we know
- Named by Martínez et al., 2016.
- Fossils found in South America and Argentina.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Sarmientosaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.