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Saltasaurus Patagotitan

With its Titanosaurs
long neck,
Puertasaurus could The neck of this giant Puertasaurus
titanosaur was up to 30 ft
reach food more (9 m) long, and its total
length may have been
than 49 ft (15 m) anything up to 98 ft (30 m).
high.

The skull of this dinosaur has Nemegtosaurus
never been found, so scientists
have had to base this
reconstruction on the fossil
remains of close relatives.

Known from a single skull found in the
Gobi Desert of Mongolia, this titanosaur is
70 million years old, making it one of the
last giant dinosaurs to walk the Earth.

same bones that form the palms of our hands. Many titanosaurs also had a feature not seen
Titanosaurs had unusually broad chests, and this in earlier sauropods—body armor. The skin of
meant that their forelimbs were spaced wide Ampelosaurus, for example, was studded with
apart; trackways of fossilized titanosaur tough, bony plates and spikes called osteoderms,
footprints are easy to recognize because the which would have helped protect it from the
marks left by their feet are so widely spaced. teeth of big predators. 71

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