Lognkosauria

Lognkosaurians
Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous, 132.9–70.9 Ma
Replica mount of Futalognkosaurus at the Royal Ontario Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Clade: Macronaria
Clade: Titanosauria
Clade: Colossosauria
Clade: Lognkosauria
Calvo et al. 2007
Genera[2][3]

Lognkosauria is a clade of giant long-necked sauropod dinosaurs within the clade Titanosauria. It includes some of the largest and heaviest dinosaurs known. They lived in South America and likely Asia during the Late Cretaceous period.

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