English: Skeletal reconstruction of the giant Argentine titanosaur Argentinosaurus. The holotype, MCF-PVPH 1,^[1] consists of six described dorsal vertebrae, another undescribed dorsal vertebra,^[2] five sacral vertebrae, an ilium, a pubis, and a fibula.^[1] The pubis was not figured, and only the dorsal vertebrae are figured in lateral view.^[3] Two tentatively referred femora, the partial MLP-DP 16-VIII-21-3 and an unnumbered, crushed specimen, are also known.^[1] The pubis, ilium, sacrum, and fibula were drawn based on Carpenter's skeletal as well as Patagotitan.^[4] Unfigured holotypic material is shown in light gray.

Missing regions were restored after Patagotitan (overall proportions),^[5][6] Futalgonkosaurus (missing hip bone outlines),^[7] Notocolossus (feet),^[8] and Tapuiasaurus (skull).^[9] Measurements from Paul's review of giant titanosaurs were used to help with the scaling.^[10] The human silhouette is from File:Silhouette of man standing and facing forward.svg (CC0). The total length of the sauropod is about 35 metres (115 ft) in this reconstruction, although this should be treated as tentative, as should any attempted reconstruction of this taxon, due to the fragmentary nature of the remains.

References

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Mazzetta, Gerardo V. (2004). "Giants and Bizarres: Body Size of Some Southern South American Cretaceous Dinosaurs". Historical Biology 16 (2–4): 71–83. DOI:10.1080/08912960410001715132. Retrieved on January 8, 2008.
2. ↑ Salgado, L.; Powell, J. E. (2010). "Reassessment of the vertebral laminae in some South American titanosaurian sauropods". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (6): 1760–1772. DOI:10.1080/02724634.2010.520783.
3. ↑ Bonaparte, J, F.; Coria, R. A. (1993). "Un nuevo y gigantesco saurópodo titanosaurio de la Formación Río Limay (Albiano-Cenomaniano) de la Provincia del Neuquén, Argentina". Ameghiniana 30 (3): 271–282.
4. ↑ Carpenter, Kenneth (2006). "Biggest of the big: A critical re-evaluation of the mega-sauropod Amphicoelias fragillimus Cope, 1878". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36: 131–137. Archived from the original on 2016-03-08. Retrieved on 2022-07-26.
5. ↑ Carballido, José L.; Pol, Diego; Otero, Aejandro; Cerda, Ignacio A.; Salgado, Leonardo; Garrido, Alberto C.; Ramezani, Jahandar; Cuneo, Néstor R.; Krause Javier M. (2017). "A new giant titanosaur sheds light on body mass evolution among sauropod dinosaurs". Proc. R. Soc. B 284 (1860): 20171219. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2017.1219.
6. ↑ Otero, A.; Carballido, J. L.; Moreno, A. P. (2020). "The appendicular osteology of Patagotitan mayorum (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40 (4): e1793158.
7. ↑ (2007). "Anatomy of Futalognkosaurus dukei Calvo, Porfiri, González Riga & Kellner, 2007 (Dinosauria, Titanosauridae) from the Neuquén Group (Late Cretaceous), Patagonia, Argentina". Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 65 (4): 511-526. ISSN 0365-4508.
8. ↑ González Riga, B. J.; Lamanna, M. C.; Ortiz David, L. D.; Calvo, J. O.; Coria, J. P. (2016). "A gigantic new dinosaur from Argentina and the evolution of the sauropod hind foot". Scientific Reports 6 (1): 1-15. DOI:10.1038/srep19165.
9. ↑ Zaher, H.; Pol, D.; Carvalho, A. B.; Nascimento, P. M.; Riccomini, C.; Larson, P.; Juarez-Valieri, R.; Pires-Domingues, R.; da Silva Jr., N. J.; de Almeida Campos, D. (2011). "A complete skull of an Early Cretaceous sauropod and the evolution of advanced titanosaurians". PLoS ONE 6 (2): e16663. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0016663.
10. ↑ Paul, G. S. (2019). "Determining the largest known land animal: A critical comparison of differing methods for restoring the volume and mass of extinct animals". Annals of the Carnegie Museum 85 (4): 335–358.