Outline: a typical sauropod
Amygdalodon
"almond tooth"
Type species Amygdalodon patagonicus
- Lived
- 193 to 183 million years ago, Early Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Cabrera 1947
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
190 million years ago
Field notes
About Amygdalodon
What it was like
Amygdalodon was an early sauropod, a long-necked plant eater known from a few bones and teeth. Its teeth were shaped like almonds, which gave it its name.
Its world
It lived in the Early Jurassic in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Cerro Carnerero Formation.
How it was found
Cabrera named it in 1947. The type species is Amygdalodon patagonicus. It is one of very few Jurassic sauropods known from South America.
Close relatives
Other members of Gravisauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: A. Cabrera. 1947. Un saurópodo nuevo del Jurásico de Patagonia. Instituto del Museo de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Notas del Mueso de La Plata, Paleontología 12(95):1-17