Antarctosaurus was a genus of titanosaurid sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous of present-day South America. In 1916 the remains were first mentioned in print, and in 1929 it was described and named by paleontologist Friedrich von in a written monograph. The name means southern lizard in reference to the reptilian nature of the animal and its geographic location on a southern continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This quadruped dinosaur had a long neck and tail, with a small head. It was a plant-eating animal and had weak, pincer-like teeth. It is known to have been the largest dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous and may have been larger than Brachiosaurus. Like other sauropods, it reproduced by laying eggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Antarctosaurus was about 18 m long, 6 m tall and weighed between 40 and 70 tons, making it one of the most gigantic South American sauropods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a plant-eating dinosaur that probably ate Gingkos, seed ferns, cycads, bennettitalean, ferns, club mosses and horsetails. which were the dominant plants when the large sauropods lived.\u00a0
The name means southern lizard in reference to the reptilian nature of the animal and its geographic location on a southern continent.
In 1916, the remains were first mentioned in the press, and in 1929, it was described and named by paleontologist Friedrich von in a written monograph.
Like other sauropods, it reproduced by laying eggs.