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{{Short description|Extinct genus of dinosaurs}} {{speciesbox | fossil_range = [[Late Cretaceous]] ([[Maastrichtian]]), {{Geological range|70|66}} | image = FMNH Rapetosaurus.jpg | image_caption = Juvenile skeleton, [[Field Museum of Natural History]] | image2 = Rapetosaurus BW.jpg | image2_caption = ''Rapetosaurus'' restoration | display_parents = 2 | genus = Rapetosaurus | parent_authority = [[Kristina Curry Rogers|Curry Rogers]] & [[Catherine Forster|Forster]], 2001 | species = krausei | authority = Curry Rogers & Forster, 2001 }} '''''Rapetosaurus''''' ({{IPAc-en|r|ə|ˌ|p|eɪ|t|uː|ˈ|s|ɔːr|ə|s}} {{respell|rə|PAY|too|SOR|əs}}<ref name=CurryRogers2001/>) is a [[genus]] of [[titanosaurian]] [[sauropod]] [[dinosaur]] that lived in [[Madagascar]] from 70 to 66 [[million years ago]], at the end of the [[Cretaceous]] [[Period (geology)|Period]]. Only one [[species]], '''''Rapetosaurus krausei''''', has been identified. Like other sauropods, ''Rapetosaurus'' was a quadrupedal [[herbivore]]; it is calculated to have reached lengths of 15 metres (49 ft).
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