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Giganotosaurus facts.?
I need some facts about the Giganotosaurus, what was special about it, behaviour, habitat, information - rather than just 'it was the biggest dinosaur.' thx it would really help.
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- They reproduced on one foot
- NAME: Meaning - Giganotosaurus means "giant southern lizard" Pronounced - jig-a-NOT-oh-SAWR-us Named By - Rodolfo Coria and Leonardo Salgado When Named - 1995 DIET: Carnivore (meat-eater) - it ate large, plant-eating dinosaurs. SIZE: Length - 44-46 ft (13.5-14.3 m) long Height - 13 ft (3.9 m) tall at the hips Weight - 8 tons WHEN IT LIVED: Middle Cretaceous period, about 110-95 million years ago WHERE IT LIVED: Fossils have been found in the Patagonia region of Argentina (in southern Argentina, South America). FOSSILS: What has been Found - It is known from fossil skeletons. Who Found the Fossils - Giganotosaurus was first found by Ruben Carolini (hence the species name, G. carolinii ) in 1994. CLASSIFICATION: * Kingdom Animalia (animals) * Phylum Chordata (having a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain) * Class Archosauria (diapsids with socket-set teeth, etc.) * Order Saurischia - lizard-hipped dinosaurs * Suborder Theropoda - bipedal carnivores * Tetanura - advanced theropods * Infraorder Carnosauria * Family Allosauridae * Genus Giganotosaurus * Species G. carolinii (type species named by Coria and Salgado, 1995) INTERESTING FACTS: Giganotosaurus was longer than T. rex!
- "Giganotosaurus also had huge olfactory bones, indicating a keen sense of smell that it most likely relied on the greatest." from source: http://www.dinodata.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8988&Itemid=67
