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Dinosaur: Elaltitan lilloi
| Length*: | 20 m | 65.6 ft |
| Weight*: | 23 t | 50,706 lb |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian-Maastrichtian
Years: 83.6–66 Ma
Details
Status: valid
Author: Mannion & Otero
Year: 2012
Distribution
Area: South America
Country: Argentina
Region: Chubut
Formation: Lago Colhué Huapí
Locations
Sources
Material: Partial skeleton (vertebrae, rib fragments, scapula, humerus, radius, ulnae, pubis, proximal femur, distal tibia, incomplete fibula, incomplete astragalus, calcaneum).
References: Mannion and Otero, (2012). A reappraisal of the Late Cretaceous Argentinean sauropod dinosaur Argyrosaurus superbus, with a description of a new titanosaur genus.
