Outline: a typical sauropod
Chucarosaurus
"untamed lizard"
Type species Chucarosaurus diripienda
- Lived
- 110 to 106 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Agnolin et al. 2023
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
110 million years ago
Field notes
About Chucarosaurus
What it was like
Chucarosaurus was a large titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater. It is known from limb and hip bones, which were long and slender for such a big animal. Its closest relatives include Notocolossus and Puertasaurus.
Its world
It lived about 110 to 106 million years ago, in the Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Huincul Formation, home to giants such as Argentinosaurus and predators such as Mapusaurus, Meraxes and Skorpiovenator.
How it was found
Agnolin and colleagues named it in 2023. The type species is Chucarosaurus diripienda.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Colossosauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: F. L. Agnolin, B. J. Gonzalez Riga, and A. M. Aranciaga Rolando, S. Rozadilla, M. J. Motta, N. R. Chimento, F. E. Novas. 2023. A new giant titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 146:105487