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The Top 5 Largest Known Dinosaurs
| Dinosaur | Length | Weight (metric tonnes) |
Period | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amphicoelias | 40 to 60 metres | 100-122 mt | Late Jurassic (155-145 million years ago) |
| 2 | Argentinosaurus | 30 to 36 metres | 80-100 mt | Late Cretaceous (80 million years ago) |
| 3 | Supersaurus | 33 to 34 metres | 35-40 mt | Late Jurassic (155-145 million years ago) |
| 4 | Sauroposeidon | 28 to 34 metres | 50-60 mt | Middle Cretaceous (110 million years ago) |
| 5 | Futalognkosaurus | 28 to 34 metres | 50-75 mt | Late Cretaceous (80 million years ago) |
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Animals & Nature, Top 5 Largest
Sources: Top 5 of Anything.com research 2012: Carpenter, Kenneth (2006).
List Notes: Please note: this list is ranked by length. Weight estimates for dinosaurs are more variable than length estimates and thus less accurate. Various complicated methods for estimating size and weight, based on skeletons are usually incomplete.
Sources: Top 5 of Anything.com research 2012: Carpenter, Kenneth (2006).
List Notes: Please note: this list is ranked by length. Weight estimates for dinosaurs are more variable than length estimates and thus less accurate. Various complicated methods for estimating size and weight, based on skeletons are usually incomplete.
