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Antarctosaurus
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You can see this dinosaur in the Museum.
Information
This was the first feathered dinosaur discovered. It has recently been shown that Antarctosaurus had a hyperextendible second toe, as seen in dromaeosaurids.
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Fact file
- Pronounced
- Ant-ARK-toe-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- non-northern lizard
- Length
- 18m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(84 - 65 million years ago) - Found in
- Argentina, Chile, Uruguay
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Macronaria, Camarasauromorpha, Titanosauriformes, Titanosauria, Lithostrotia, Antarctosaurus
- Named by
- von Huene (1929)
- Type species
- wichmannianus
