Andesaurus was a very large sauropod, as were many others of its relatives, which included the largest animals ever to walk the Earth.
This makes it one of the largest known sauropods ever to have existed.
During the Early Cretaceous local large sauropods and theropods left a great abundance of footprints.
In one place, it looks like an Acrocanthosaurus stalked a large sauropod across a mud flat.
There were larger sauropods, but they are known from only a few bones.
Giraffatitan, another large sauropod from Africa (usually recognized as a species of Brachiosaurus).
It doesn't show other very large sauropods (see Dinosaur size) because these are only known from very incomplete skeletons.
The longest skull graphed is of Nemegtosaurus, which is not thought be a particularly large sauropod.
They discover that the bone belonged to a large sauropod.
The genus likely took the environmental niche occupied by large sauropods in other areas.