Puertasaurus reuili

[gigadino96]

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Name: Puertasaurus reuili
Length: 38 meters
Mass: 110 tons
When: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian, 70 milion years ago
Where: South America
Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Reptilia, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Titanosauria, Titanosauroidae, Lognkosauria, Puertasaurus, Puertasaurus reuli

Puertasaurus reuili is a genus of Sauropoda lived in what is now South America, about 70 million years ago. Almost 40 meters long and weighing more than 100 tons, it could be the largest dinosaur ever existed, probably even longer and heavier than its more famous cousin, Argentinosaurus, although there are other claimants in North America. It is a dinosaur only recently discovered, and described in 2005. Unfortunately, his remains are very partial: it has only one spine (incomplete) with some vertebrae of impressive size (1.06 meters high, 1.68 meters wide), and rib cage had to be very large (5 to 8 meters wide) , and this would make it probably the widest dinosaur ever. From a single cervical vertebra note, it is understood that this dinosaur had a neck long and stocky, unusual feature in sauropods.

[theropod]

I would better use Nima´s reconstruction. It is far better than that one (short, stubby neck, legs too long, torso too short).
I´d also better give a range of ~30-40m. It is not certain whether it is larger than A. huinculensis, even tough I too think so. The vertebra are wider, with a greater surface in anterior or posterior view, however not as tall, with a flatter, wider centrum.

Apart from that, excellent profile.

[gigadino96]

Thanks !

For written estimates, I have relied on this graph:

I changed the picture with a restoration of T-PECK.

[theropod]

The new image is nice. Including nimas compilation is too!

[creature386]

By the way, could we stop debating in the profiles? I am making a therad right now, where such stuff can be posted.