| NAME: |
Meaning - Giganotosaurus means "giant southern lizard"
Pronounced - jig-a-NOT-oh-SAWR-us
Named
By - Rodolfo Coria and Leonardo Salgado
When Named - 1995 |
| DIET: |
Carnivore (meat-eater) - it ate large, plant-eating dinosaurs. |
| SIZE: |
Length - 44-46 ft (13.5-14.3 m) long
Height - 13 ft (3.9 m) tall at the hips
Weight
- 8 tons |
| WHEN IT LIVED: |
Middle Cretaceous period, about 110-95 million years ago |
| WHERE IT LIVED: |
Fossils have been found in the Patagonia region of Argentina (in southern Argentina, South America). |
| FOSSILS: |
What has been Found - It is known from fossil skeletons.
Who Found the Fossils - Giganotosaurus
was first found by Ruben Carolini (hence the species name, G. carolinii ) in 1994. |
| CLASSIFICATION: |
- Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Phylum Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain)
- Class Archosauria (diapsids with socket-set teeth, etc.)
- Order Saurischia - lizard-hipped dinosaurs
- Suborder Theropoda - bipedal carnivores
- Tetanura - advanced theropods
- Infraorder Carnosauria
- Family Allosauridae
- Genus Giganotosaurus
- Species G. carolinii (type species named by Coria and Salgado, 1995)
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INTERESTING
FACTS: |
Giganotosaurus was longer than T. rex! |
| LINKS: |
A detailed page on Giganotosaurus.
A printout on Giganotosaurus |
