Limaysaurus
Limaysaurus was a huge, long-necked plant-eater that stomped through South America about 110 million years ago. It had tall spines on its back and used stones in its belly to help grind up food.1
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estimación
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tan longo coma 3 coches aparcados en fila🍌tan longo coma 83 plátanos postos un tras outro
máis ou menos tan pesado coma un elefante🍉tan pesado coma 1400 sandías🎒tan pesado coma 9 clases enteiras de nenos🐻❄️tan pesado coma 16 osos polares🏃podería correr 100 metros en 21 segundos (o humano máis rápido necesita 9,6)Como era de grande Limaysaurus comparado CONTIGO?
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Datos curiosos
Limaysaurus is one of the most complete Cretaceous sauropods ever found in South America, with one skeleton 80% complete.1
Its teeth were curved, unlike the pencil-shaped teeth of Diplodocus.1
The neural spines on its back vertebrae were tall and I-shaped, not V-shaped like some other sauropods.1
Limaysaurus is closely related to Rebbachisaurus from Africa, which suggests a land bridge once connected South America and Africa.1
It lived alongside the giant predator Giganotosaurus and the sauropod Andesaurus.1
The first fossil was found in 1988 by Lieto Tessone, who the species is named after.1

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Limaysaurus
?How big was Limaysaurus?
About 15 metres (49 feet) long and weighed around 7 tonnes. That is roughly as long as a bus and as heavy as a large elephant.1
?Where was Limaysaurus found?
In Argentina, specifically in northwestern Patagonia, about 15 km southwest of Villa El Chocón in Neuquén Province.1
?When did Limaysaurus live?
It lived during the Early Cretaceous Period, about 111 to 106 million years ago.1
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Limaysaurus
- Bautizado por
- Salgado et al. 20043
- Grupo
- Pescozos longos
- Familia / clado
- Rebbachisauridae3
- Clasificación
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Diplodocoidea3
- Idade das rochas
- de 113 a 94 millóns de anos (Albian / Cenomanian)3
- Formacións rochosas
- Candeleros, Alcântara, Huincul3
- Países
- Arxentina, Brasil3
- Rexistros fósiles
- 6 na Paleobiology Database3
- Descubrimento
- The first fossils were found in 1988 by Lieto Tessone in Patagonia, Argentina. Scientists originally named it Rebbachisaurus tessonei in 1995, but later gave it its own genus Limaysaurus in 2004.1
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists still debate the exact age of the rocks where Limaysaurus was found, with estimates ranging from the early Albian to the Cenomanian.1
De onde veñen os datos
- Limaysaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Limaysaurus Salgado, Garrido, Cocca & Cocca, 2004 (gbif.org)
- Limaysaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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