Pellegrinisaurus

Taxobox
name = "Pellegrinisaurus"
status = fossil
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Dinosauria
ordo = Saurischia
subordo = Sauropodomorpha
infraordo = Sauropoda
unranked_familia = Titanosauria
genus = "Pellegrinisaurus"
species = "P. powelli"
binomial = "Pellegrinisaurus powelli"
binomial_authority = Salgado, 1996

"Pellegrinisaurus" (meaning "Lizard from Pelligrini") is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a titanosaur which lived in what is now Argentina. The type species, "Pellegrinisaurus powelli", was described by Salgado in 1996, and is based on mostly vertebrae. "Pelligrinisaurus" is estimated to have been between 62-78 feet in length, but because a full fossil skeleton has not been recovered, this is only a rough estimate.

References

* http://www.users.qwest.net/~jstweet1/saltasauridae.htm
* [http://www.dinoruss.com/de_4/5a7b68c.htm page on "Pelligrinisaurus"]