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Opisthocoelicaudia
Opisthocoelicaudia (from Greek opisthe [back], koilos [hollow], and Latin cauda [tail], meaning posterior cavity tail) was a 39 foot-long (12 meter) sauropod of the Late Cretaceous Period discovered in Mongolia in 1965 by Polish and Mongolian scientists in the Gobi Desert (in the Cretaceous, Mongolia wasn't all desert: it also had lush jungles and murky marshes, which Opisthocoelocaudia might have waded in). It was described and named in 1977 by Borsuk-Bialynicka as a new type of camarasaur, but studies such as Salgado and Coria (1993) find it to be a saltasaurid titanosaur instead.
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