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A very long neck, a whip-like tail and pillar legs: sauropods were the largest land animals of all time. Plant-eaters, they lived from the Early Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous. Some passed thirty metres in length. Hollow vertebrae filled with air sacs lightened their enormous bulk.
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Averianov & Lopatin
All that is known of this titanosaur boils down to an incomplete tail: eight front tail vertebrae, a middle one and several chevrons. These bones were discovered in 1970 at Abdrant Nuru in Mongolia during a joint Soviet-Mongolian paleontological expedition. The genus name keeps the trace and means "Abdrant Nuru tail".
Photo: Skye M (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Vila et al.
Bones found in Catalonia were assigned in 1956 to a new unnamed species of a genus now considered dubious. Later digs added more bones and an articulated series of neck and back vertebrae.
Photo: SpinoDragon145 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Santucci & Bertini
Six tail vertebrae: that is all we have of this sauropod, and yet it is assumed to have been very large. The Brazilian geologist Sérgio Mezzalira found them and mentioned them in print as early as 1959. The name came only in 2006 with Rodrigo Santucci and Reinaldo Bertini. It was the first dinosaur named that year.
Photo: Karkemish (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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