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    • Giganotosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina, during the early Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 99.6 to 95 million years ago. The holotype specimen was discovered in the Candeleros Formation of Patagonia in 1993 and is almost 70% complete. The animal was named Giganotosaur… See more

    Discovery

    In 1993, the amateur Argentine fossil hunter Rubén Darío Carolini [es] discovered the tibia (lower leg bone) of a theropod dinosaur … See more

    Description

    Giganotosaurus is thought to have been one of the largest theropod dinosaurs, but the incompleteness of its remains have made it difficult to estimate its size reliably. It is therefore impossible to determine with certainty w… See more

    Classification

    Coria and Salgado originally found Giganotosaurus to group more closely with the theropod clade Tetanurae than to more basal (or "primitive") theropods such as ceratosaurs, due to shared features (synapomor… See more

    Giganotosaurus: The Giant Southern Lizard
    Giganotosaurus: The Giant Southern Lizard
    Giganotosaurus: The Giant Lizard of the South
    Giganotosaurus: The Giant Lizard of the South
    Paleobiology

    In 1999, the paleontologist Reese E. Barrick and the geologist William J. Showers found that the bones of Giganotosaurus and Tyrannosaurus had very similar oxygen isotope patterns, with similar hea… See more

    Paleoenvironment

    Giganotosaurus was discovered in the Candeleros Formation, which was deposited during the Early Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 99.6 to 97 million years ago. This formati… See more

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