The mystery of the other rearing sauropod of the Egidio Feruglio museum
Way back in 2014, John Hutchinson posted some photos from the Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio in Trelew city, Patagonia, Argentina. John’s original tweets are long gone (quite rightly), but happily we reposted the photos on SV-POW!, so they live on.
John’s first photo showed what we now known to be Epachthosaurus. But the second photo is more interesting for our present purposes:
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@MikeTaylor Here’s the wide view of that exhibit, with about-to-be-squished abelisaur and sulking Amargasaurus: ” data-large-file=”https://svpow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bjqghuocqaeri1e.jpg?w=480″ class=”size-full wp-image-10052″ src=”https://svpow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bjqghuocqaeri1e.jpg” alt=”" width=”480″ height=”319″ srcset=”https://svpow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bjqghuocqaeri1e.jpg?w=480&h=319 480w, https://svpow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bjqghuocqaeri1e.jpg?w=960&h=638 960w, https://svpow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bjqghuocqaeri1e.jpg?w=150&h=100 150w, https://svpow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bjqghuocqaeri1e.jpg?w=300&h=200 300w, https://svpow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bjqghuocqaeri1e.jpg?w=768&h=511 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px” />
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@MikeTaylor Here’s the wide view of that exhibit, with about-to-be-squished abelisaur and sulking Amargasaurus.
This also prominently features the Epachthosaurus mount. But as you can see, the foreground also shows another, smaller, sauropod — also in a rearing pose. But we don’t know what it is. (In a comment, Nima suggested “The smaller one may be a Neuquensaurus with a very wrong Giraffatitan-based skull model” but gave no reason for this ID.)
So I went to look for other photos of the same exhibit. Wikimedia, which is often the best source, has 145 photos of the museum, and I hoped one of them would show the smaller rearing sauropod and give an ID. But no: it seems that a short time after John’s visit, the display was reworked to replace that sauropod with (admittedly very impressive) forelimb material of Patagotitan:
Caption from Wikimedia: Fósiles del titanosauria del Chubut en el Museo Egidio Feruglio de Trelew, Chubut, Argentina. Descubiertos en 2013 y presentados en 2014, supuestamente se trata del animal terrestre más grande de la historia de la Tierra. Pesaría 4 toneladas más que el Argentinosaurus y su fémur mide más de dos metros. Translation: Fossils of the Chubut titanosaur at the Egidio Feruglio Museum in Trelew, Chubut, Argentina. Discovered in 2013 and presented in 2014, it is supposedly the largest land animal in Earth’s history. It would have weighed 4 tons more than Argentinosaurus and its femur measures more than two meters.
(Because that photo, like John’s, is from 2014, I briefly wondered whether it was the other way around, and the giant forelimb was replaced by the small rearing sauropod: but no, later photos also show the giant forelimb.)
So it seems that John’s photo is the only one available that shows the old, small, rearing sauropod. (Unless any of you happen to have other such photos?)
So what is it? Wikimedia has a newer photo of a Neuquensaurus mount at the museum, and it looks like it could well be the rearer from the older photo, based on the short cervical ribs, low dorsal neural spines, oddly shaped scapula and hourglass humeri. But it’s hardly a slam-dunk.
Can anyone confirm? Is anyone in touch with someone at the museum? And, most of all: does anyone have a good photo of this rearing mount from before it was taken down?
Source: https://svpow.com/2026/05/12/the-mystery-of-the-other-rearing-sauropod-of-the-egidio-feruglio-museum/
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