Outline: a typical sauropod
Nemegtosaurus
"Nemegt lizard"
- Lived
- 84 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 13 m (43 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods, Nemegtosauridae
- Found in
- China and Mongolia
- Named by
- Nowinski 1971
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical sauropod shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
75 million years ago
Field notes
About Nemegtosaurus
What it was like
Nemegtosaurus was a titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater about 13 meters (43 feet) long. It is known mostly from a single skull, which is long and low, with thin, pencil-like teeth at the front of the jaws.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Mongolia. The Nemegt Formation was a land of rivers shared with the tyrannosaur Tarbosaurus, the giant clawed Therizinosaurus and the duckbill Saurolophus. Some scientists think Nemegtosaurus may be the same animal as Opisthocoelicaudia, which is known from a headless skeleton in the same rocks.
How it was found
Nowinski named Nemegtosaurus in 1971. It was found by a joint European and Mongolian expedition.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Nemegtosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: A. Nowinski. 1971. <i>Nemegtosaurus mongoliensis</i> n. gen., n. sp. (Sauropoda) from the uppermost Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontologia Polonica 25:57-81