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Notocolossus

Notocolossus was a giant titanosaur with unusually informative hindfoot material.

Notocolossus was a giant titanosaur with unusually informative hindfoot material. Its shortened and robust pedal construction makes the feet an important part of its identity, not merely a minor detail.

Notocolossus at a glance

Diet
Herbivore
Its feeding anatomy is interpreted as adapted to plant food.
When it lived
Late Cretaceous
Group
Titanosauria
Titanosauria

Beyond the game

The real Notocolossus

Notocolossus was a giant titanosaur with unusually informative hindfoot material. Its shortened and robust pedal construction makes the feet an important part of its identity, not merely a minor detail.

Its hindfoot is unusually informative for a giant sauropod. The shortened and robust pedal anatomy provides evidence that is often absent from fossils of similarly large animals.

Fossil discoveries

Mendoza, Argentina · approximate location
Mendoza, Argentina

Selected fossil records · present-day map

Map references

Paleobiology Database · B. J. González Riga, M. C. Lamanna, and L. D. Ortiz David, J. O. Calvo, J. P. Coria. 2016. A gigantic new dinosaur from Argentina and the evolution of the sauropod hind foot. Scientific Reports 6:19165:1-15 ↗

Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.

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  1. A gigantic new dinosaur from Argentina and the evolution of the sauropod hind foot

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