Hypselosaurus

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hypselosaurus (meaning 'highest lizard', from Greek ¿¿¿¿¿¿ meaning 'high' or 'lofty' and ¿¿¿¿¿¿ meaning 'lizard') was a 27-foot (8.2 m) long titanosaurid sauropod that lived in Europe during the Late Cretaceous Period (Maastrichtian stage, around 70 to 65 million years ago). Hypselosaurus was scientifically described by geologist Pierre Émile Philippe Matheron in 1846 and formally named in 1869, on the basis of fragmentary remains from the Late Cretaceous of the Provence region of France. Matheron thought the animal was a gigantic crocodile.