Outline: a typical sauropod

La Amarga Fm., ArgentinaNamed 2007

Amargatitanis

"Amarga titan"

Lived
126 to 121 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Sauropods, Dicraeosauridae
Found in
Argentina
Named by
Apesteguía 2007

Where its fossils were found

The evidence

Today

1 find

125 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Field notes

About Amargatitanis

What it was like

Amargatitanis was a long-necked plant eater, probably a dicraeosaurid, a sauropod with a fairly short neck for its kind. It is known from part of a hind leg, a hip bone and a few tail bones.

Its world

It lived about 126 to 121 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the La Amarga Formation, where it shared the land with its spiny relative Amargasaurus and the sauropod Zapalasaurus.

How it was found

Apesteguía named it in 2007 from one find.

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations

Close relatives

Other members of Dicraeosauridae

Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. Apesteguía. 2007. The sauropod diversity of the La Amarga Formation (Barremian), Neuquén (Argentina). Gondwana Research 12:533-546