Nemegtosaurus
Nemegtosaurus mongoliensis
Nemegtosaurus (meaning "reptile from the Nemegt") was a sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. Measuring an estimated 12–13 m (39–43 ft) long and weighing 20 t (44,000 lb), it was named after the Nemegt Basin in the Gobi Desert, where the remains — a single skull — were found. The skull resembles diplodocoids in being long and low, with pencil-shaped teeth. However, recent work has shown that Nemegtosaurus is in fact a titanosaur, closely related to animals such as Saltasaurus, Alamosaurus, and Rapetosaurus.
- Family
- Nemegtosauridae
- Order
- Saurischia
- Period
- Cretaceous (70.0–66.0 Ma)
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- 15.0 m
- Weight
- 10.0 t
- Type locality
- Nemegt Formation, Mongolia
- Holotype
- ZPAL MgD-I/9
- PBDB
- txn:38671