Sauroposeidon
The press release in 1999 immediately garnered international media attention, which led to many (inaccurate) news reports of "the largest dinosaur ever!". While "Sauroposeidon" likely represents the tallest known dinosaur taxon, it does not hold records for either the longest or most massive. "Patagotitan" or "Argentinosaurus" make better candidates for the title "World's Largest Dinosaur" (presuming to ignore, as is conventional, "Amphicoelias"), though incomplete fossil evidence makes exact rankings impossible.
Puertasaurus
Due to a lack of better material, the size of "Puertasaurus" is difficult to estimate. Novas estimated the new species was approximately long and weighing between . This would place it as one of the largest dinosaurs, only rivaled in size by its relative "Argentinosaurus", which has been estimated at up to in length and in mass. The discovery of the more complete "Futalognkosaurus" revealed these previous estimates were likely too high. In 2012, Thomas Holtz estimated "Puertasaurus" to have been potentially long. In 2013, the entire neck was estimated to have been approximately long by Mike Taylor and Matt Wedel. Later the same year, Scott Hartman made a reconstruction that suggests a total length of , slightly shorter than other estimates. In 2016, Gregory S. Paul estimated a length of and a weight of at least . In 2017, paleontologist José Carballido and his colleagues estimated its mass at roughly , which was lighter than "Patagotitan", a more complete giant sauropod.