Patagotitan

Patagotitan mayorum · Patagotitan was a giant long-necked, plant-eating titanosaur dinosaur that lived in a forested region of what is now Patagonia, Argentina, during the Early Cretaceous.

It lived about 110.8 to 101.6 million years ago.

Patagotitan
Photo: Sphenaphinae, CC BY-SA 4.0
Patagotitan
Photo: UnexpectedDinoLesson, CC BY 4.0
Patagotitan
Photo: PaleoEquii, CC BY-SA 4.0

Taxonomy

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassReptilia
OrderSaurischia
FamilyArgentinosauridae
GenusPatagotitan
SpeciesPatagotitan mayorum

Where its fossils were found

Chubut Province in Patagonia, Argentina.

Fun facts

  • Early press reports suggested Patagotitan was about 37 m long and weighed 69 tonnes, which would have made it the largest known land animal.
  • Later research shrank the estimates to about 31 m long and roughly 50–60 tonnes, so it may be smaller than its relative Argentinosaurus.
  • A farm laborer found the first fossil, part of a lower leg bone, in the Argentine desert in 2010.
  • Digs at the site uncovered more than 200 fossils, including 130 sauropod bones and 57 teeth from meat-eating theropod dinosaurs.

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Facts and taxonomy adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).