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long-neck giant
Nemegtosaurus
Say it like this: “NAY-meg-to-SAWR-us”
Nemegtosaurus mongoliensis
Nemegtosaurus ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Mongolia.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
- Named in
- 1971 · Nowinski, A.
- Hip height
- 2.2 m · 7 ft
- Length
- 12–13 m · 39–43 ft
- Weight
- 20 tonnes
- Found in
- Mongolia · Nemegt
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Nemegtosauridae
The story in short
In 1971, A. Nowinski published the name Nemegtosaurus. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Nemegtosaurus date to the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago. Finds come from Mongolia, including the Nemegt Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Nemegtosaurus at a length near 12–13 m, hips about 2.2 m high, and a body mass around 20 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Nemegtosauridae, among the sauropod dinosaurs.