Chubutisaurus
| Chubutisaurus Temporal range: Cenomanian
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria |
| Clade: | †Somphospondyli |
| Genus: | †Chubutisaurus del Corro, 1975 |
| Type species | |
| †Chubutisaurus insignis del Corro, 1975
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Chubutisaurus (meaning "Chubut lizard") is a genus of somphospondylan sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Cerro Barcino Formation of Argentina. The type species, Chubutisaurus insignis, was described by del Corro in 1975. Chubutisaurus had a more robust radius than Venenosaurus. In 2010 Gregory S. Paul gave a length of 18 metres (59 ft) and a weight of 12 tonnes (13 short tons). Thomas Holtz estimated its length at 23 metres (75 ft) in 2012.