🧬 Biological Classification (Kingdom to Species)Patagotitan mayorum
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Saurischia
Order
Family
Genus
Patagotitan
Species
Patagotitan mayorum
Patagotitan (Patagotitan mayorum)🎨 Restoration

Restoration: Levi Martinez-Reza · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source

Life restorations are artistic reconstructions based on fossil evidence; true coloration and soft-tissue details remain uncertain.

Saurischia🌿 Herbivore

Patagotitan

Patagotitan mayorum (Patagotitan · Patagotitan)

🛡️ Conservation Status (IUCN Red List)FOSSIL (Extinct Fossil)

Known only from fossils. The IUCN Red List assesses only species extant since 1500 CE, so fossil taxa are not assigned a category.

Geological Era
Early Cretaceous (~113.2 MYA)
Diet
Herbivore
Length · Height
37.5m · No data
Mass · Top Speed
57t · No data
Habitat & Fossil Locality
Cretaceous land around La Flecha ranch in Patagonia, Argentina

💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed

  • 💡 Its estimated body length of 37.5 m is more than two and a half times the length of a London double-decker bus (about 14 m) (Comparison).
  • 💡 A cast skeleton about 37 m (122 feet) long is on permanent display as Patagotitan mayorum at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).

Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.

📊 Mass & Speed Index (0–100)
⚖️ Mass Index (Blue Whale ~190 t = 100, log scale)94

Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.

#파타고티탄#Patagotitan mayorum

📖 1. Overview

Patagotitan mayorum (genus Patagotitan) was a giant titanosaurian sauropod from Patagonia, Argentina, and is one of the largest dinosaurs known.

🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology

It was a quadrupedal sauropod, and a single femur reached 2.38 m in length.

🔍 3. Fossil Record & Paleoecology

It ate tough plants, and its teeth were suited for stripping leaves from branches. At least six individuals were found in three flood-deposit layers, and the species name honors the Mayo family, owners of the ranch.

🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea

No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.

📚 Sources & References

Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.

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DATA & LICENSE

📚 Data & Image Sources and Licenses

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② Summaries: Wikipedia

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③ Measurements & IUCN Status

Length, mass, and speed are representative estimates from published literature. Conservation status follows IUCN Red List categories (iucnredlist.org).

④ Silhouettes & Scale Diagrams

Silhouettes on the size comparison stage use open-licensed PhyloPic illustrations and custom body diagrams drawn at an exact 1m = 1m scale.

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