HardPatagotitan
Patagotitan mayorum
PAT-ah-goh-TY-tan· “Patagonian titan”
🕰️ Cretaceous🌿 herbivore🦴 Titanosauria
37 m
Length
6 m
Height
60 t
Weight
One of the largest land animals of all time — a titanosaur so enormous that a full-size cast of its skeleton barely fits inside a museum hall.
When
Early Cretaceous, ~102 million years ago
Found in
Argentina
Discovered
José Carballido, 2017
Did you know?
- It was up to about 37 m long, among the biggest animals ever.
- It weighed as much as roughly ten elephants.
- A cast of its skeleton is too long to fit in a single room.
Artwork: TotalDino, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.