Pellegrinisaurus

What it was like

Pellegrinisaurus was a large titanosaur, a long-necked, four-legged plant eater, known from part of the backbone, tail and a thigh bone.

Its world

It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Allen Formation, where it shared the land with the raptor Austroraptor, the hunter Abelisaurus and the titanosaurs Aeolosaurus and Neuquensaurus.

How it was found

Salgado named Pellegrinisaurus in 1996, for bones that had been placed in another genus. Its name comes from a lake near where it was found.