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Antarctosaurus
Antarctosaurus
- Pronunciation:
- Ant-ARK-toe-sore-us
- Name meaning:
- 'non-northern lizard'
- Type of dinosaur:
- sauropod
- Length:
- 18.0m
- Diet:
- herbivorous
- When it lived:
- Late Cretaceous, 84 million years ago
- Found in:
- Argentina, Chile, Uruguay
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Macronaria, Camarasauromorpha, Titanosauriformes, Titanosauria, Lithostrotia
- Named by:
- von Huene (1929)
- Type species:
- wichmannianus
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