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Life restorations are artistic reconstructions based on fossil evidence; true coloration and soft-tissue details remain uncertain.
Patagotitan
Patagotitan mayorum (Patagotitan · Patagotitan)
Known only from fossils. The IUCN Red List assesses only species extant since 1500 CE, so fossil taxa are not assigned a category.
💡 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.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 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
- • Fossil taxon — the IUCN Red List assesses only species living or extinct since 1500
- • paleobiodb.org — basicTaxonInfo
- • wikidata.org — Q35973533
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:FMNH Patagotitan.jpg
- • nhm.ac.uk — patagotitan.html
- • doi.org — rspb.2017.1219
- • amnh.org — meet-patagotitan-mayorum
- • nhm.ac.uk — how-big-was-diplodocus-carnegii.html
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.