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long-neck giant
Pilmatueia
Say it like this: “pil-mah-TU-wee-uh”
Pilmatueia faundezi
Pilmatueia ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Argentina.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) · roughly 137.1 to 132.6 million years ago
- Named in
- 2019 · Coria, R. A.; Windholz, G. J.; Ortega, F.; Currie, P. J.
- Hip height
- 3.1 m · 10 ft
- Length
- 12 m · 39 ft
- Weight
- 4.2 tonnes
- Found in
- Argentina · Mulichinco
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Dicraeosauridae
The story in short
Pilmatueia was formally named in 2019 by R. A. Coria and colleagues. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian), roughly 137.1 to 132.6 million years ago. Finds come from Argentina, including the Mulichinco Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Pilmatueia at a length near 12 m, hips about 3.1 m high, and a body mass around 4.2 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Dicraeosauridae, among the sauropod dinosaurs.