Dinosaur: Nemegtosaurus mongoliensis
Length*: | 12.4 m | 40.7 ft |
Weight*: | 6 tons | 13,228 lb |
ESR: 3 / 4 (estimated size reliability)
Period
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Early Maastrichtian
Details
Status: valid
Autor: Nowinski
Year: 1971
Area: Asia
Country: Mongolia
Region: Ömnögovi
Formation: Nemegt
Other
Material: Nearly complete skull, lower jaws, caudal centrum, femur, tibia, fibula, astragalus, pedal ungual, referred nearly complete skull with lower jaws and 5 dorsal vertebrae ?
References: Currie et al. (2018). "Rediscovery of the type localities of the Late Cretaceous Mongolian sauropods Nemegtosaurus mongoliensis and Opisthocoelicaudia skarzynskii : Stratigraphic and taxonomic implications".
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