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Menucocelsior

Il num vul dir: “the taller one from Salitral Ojo del Agua”1
Mangiava: PlantasCuliezs lungsCretacic tardiv

Menucocelsior was a medium-sized, long-necked dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina. It shared its home with many other titanosaurs, each eating different plants so they didn't have to fight for food.12

Viveva
avant 72 fin 66 milliuns onns3
Cretacic tardiv
Fossils chattads en
Salitral Ojo del Agua area, Río Negro province, northern Patagonia, Argentina12
Lunghezza
8 m (26 ft)1
Autezza
2,1 m (6,9 ft)
stima
Spertadad maximala
var 27 km/h (17 mph)
Currer, stima

Cura viveva el?

Triassic
Giurassic
Cretacic
avant 252 milliuns onns20114566, l'asteroid

Quant grond era el?

Quant lung era el?

Menucocelsior var 8 m lung (26 ft)In velo da creschids var 1,8 m (5,9 ft)In auto var 4,5 m (15 ft)In elefant, il pli grond animal da terra dad oz var 6,5 m (21 ft)

Quant aut era el?

In chaunvar 0,5 m (1,6 ft)In chavalvar 1,6 m (5,2 ft)Menucocelsiorvar 2,1 m aut (6,9 ft)In elefantvar 3,2 m (10 ft)

stima

uschè lung sco 8 chauns dal nas a la cuauschè lung sco 44 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess currer 100 meters en 13 secundas (il pli spert uman dovra 9,6)

Quant grond era Menucocelsior cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn arcunà u tramess.

Quant spert era el?

chaussas cool

Fatgs divertents

1

Menucocelsior is known from only a partial tail and some leg bones, including a right humerus and left fibula.1

2

It was a member of the Eutitanosauria group, but not a colossosaur, saltasaurine, or aeolosaurin.1

3

Menucocelsior lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous.3

4

Its name comes from the Mapudungun word 'menuco' (watering hole) and Latin 'celsior' (higher), referring to the Salitral Ojo del Agua site.1

5

The species name 'arriagadai' honors Beto Arriagada, the owner of the ranch where the fossils were found.1

6

This dinosaur lived alongside other titanosaurs like Rocasaurus, and their different body shapes likely let them share the same area without competing too much.12

Fatg cun IAMaletg da Menucocelsior fatg cun IA
In maletg fatg cun IA che mussa co Menucocelsior pudess avair guardà ora, fatg d'in computer tenor quai che la scienza sa. I sa tracta d'ina supposiziun: l'animal vair ha forsa guardà ora auter, e sias colurs vairas èn nunenconuschentas.
tias dumondas

Las dumondas las pli frequentas davart Menucocelsior

?How big was Menucocelsior?

Menucocelsior was about 8 metres (26 feet) long, based on fossil material.1

?What did Menucocelsior eat?

It was a herbivore, as indicated by its classification as a sauropod dinosaur.3

?When did Menucocelsior live?

It lived during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous, about 72 to 66 million years ago.1

Per experts da dinos

Num scientific
Menucocelsior
Numnà da
Aranciaga Rolando et al. 20223
Gruppa
Culiezs lungs
Famiglia / clada
Eutitanosauria3
Classificaziun
Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria3
Vegliadetgna da la crappa
72 fin 66 milliuns onns (Maastrichtian)3
Formaziuns da crap
Allen3
Pajais
Argentinia3
Chats da fossils
2 en The Paleobiology Database3
Scuverta
Menucocelsior was named in 2022 by Aranciaga Rolando and colleagues based on a partial skeleton found in the Allen Formation of Argentina.31
Anc discutà
Scientists are not sure exactly which group of eutitanosaurs Menucocelsior belongs to, as its bones do not match any known subgroup.1

Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Menucocelsior (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. The sauropod record of Salitral Ojo del Agua: An Upper Cretaceous (Allen Formation) fossiliferous locality from northern Patagonia, Argentina (ri.conicet.gov.ar)
  3. Menucocelsior in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.

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