Dinosaur
Alamosaurus
Some isolated bones indicate that certain individuals could reach enormous sizes.
Alamosaurus appears in a peculiar chapter of the North American record of sauropods.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Alamosaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Titanosauria
- Titanosaurs
- Fossil locations
- United States
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Alamosaurus
It was one of the sauropods found in North America after a long gap in that group’s fossil record there. One proposal is that its ancestors arrived from another continent.
Some isolated bones indicate that certain individuals could reach enormous sizes. It has been proposed that their ancestors arrived from another continent. This explanation attempts to understand their presence after a long shortage of fossils of the group, without converting a hypothesis into an observed migratory route.
Titanosaurs were long-necked sauropods. The group includes giants and relatively small species; membership of the group does not automatically determine body size.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.A note on the science
Some isolated bones indicate that certain individuals could reach enormous sizes. It has been proposed that their ancestors arrived from another continent. This explanation attempts to understand their presence after a long shortage of fossils of the group, without converting a hypothesis into an observed migratory route.
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- Alamosaurus sanjuanensis
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- Alamosaurus
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- Titanosauria
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- Living birds
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