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Is the new, biggest dinosaur Sauroposeidon?


Daniel Fischer

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Hello, today I heard in the radio about a new dinosaur discovery in Argentina, they only found pelvic bones but they say it may be the biggest dinosaur ever discovered. I immediately thought about the Sauroposiedon, which is the tallest dinosaur, but only known by 4 bones.

These dinosaurs are both massive sauropods that are known only from a few fossils. I thought  that maybe they are the same dinosaur so I looked at a map of the early Cretaceous, compared to a map of the world toady and saw that these dinosaurs lived in different places without any access to each other.

But I still have hope, the map I looked at is not accurate at all.

So I would like to hear your opinion's about this whole thing, and if you know of a good recreation of the early Cretaceous map, please tell me.

The new discovery is in Argentina, and the Sauroposeidon was discovered in Oklahoma. 

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The new sauropod from Argentina is definitely big. But every time a new really big sauropod is found they say it's the biggest yet. It's just marketing, nothing else really.

 

Animals of the same species can vary quite a lot between individuals. Even in humans there can be big differences. So saying a new dinosaur is the biggest based on fairly scrappy material of just one individual really doesn't make much sense. We really don't know if that animal was a particularly big or particularly small, or perhaps average individual of that species.

That being said, there are a whole bunch of big sauropods that are contenders for being the biggest. The South American titanosaurs are definitely really big.

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Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite

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2 minutes ago, LordTrilobite said:

The new sauropod from Argentina is definitely big. But every time a new really big sauropod is found they say it's the biggest yet. It's just marketing, nothing else really.

 

Animals of the same species can vary quite a lot between individuals. Even in humans there can be big differences. So saying a new dinosaur is the biggest based on fairly scrappy material of just one individual really doesn't make much sense. We really don't know if that animal was a particularly big or particularly small, or perhaps average individual of that species.

That being said, there are a whole bunch of big sauropods that are contenders for being the biggest. The South American titanosaurs are definitely really big.

I guess we will have to wait for more discoveries.

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This came out Jan 21 might be what you are referring to? Or another new big one?

 

Paper: " here considered one of the largest sauropods ever found" note the comment one of largest not the largest

Article: might be the largest 

 

Article

https://www.livescience.com/largest-dinosaur-discovered-in-argentina.html

 

Paywalled paper

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019566712100001X

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