Outline: a typical sauropod
Agustinia
Type species Agustinia ligabuei
- Lived
- 113 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Rebbachisauridae
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Bonaparte 1999
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
105 million years ago
Field notes
About Agustinia
What it was like
Agustinia was a long-necked plant eater known from a few bones of the back, hips and legs. When first described, some flat and spiky bones were thought to be armor running down its back. Later studies suggest these may be broken ribs or hip bones instead.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Lohan Cura Formation, where it lived alongside the sauropods Ligabuesaurus and Comahuesaurus.
How it was found
Bonaparte named Agustinia in 1999 from one find. The type species is Agustinia ligabuei. The name honors the young man who found the bones.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Rebbachisauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. F. Bonaparte. 1999. An armoured sauropod from the Aptian of northern Patagonia, Argentina. Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:1-12