Antarctosaurus
Field photograph to come
Antarctosaurus
DV-0133
- Lived
- 90 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 18 m (59 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Argentina, Brazil, India and Uruguay
- Named by
- Huene 1927
Field notes
About Antarctosaurus
Antarctosaurus was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 90 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 6 finds of Antarctosaurus, from Argentina, Brazil and India. Its fossils come from rocks including the Adamantina Formation, the Anacleto Formation and the Asencio Formation. It was named by Huene in 1927.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
80 million years ago
To scale
How big was Antarctosaurus?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Lithostrotia.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: F. v. Huene. 1927. Short review of the present knowledge of the Sauropoda. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(1):121-126