Outline: a typical sauropod
Bagualia
"wild horse"
- Lived
- 183 to 180 million years ago, Early Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Pol et al. 2020
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
180 million years ago
Field notes
About Bagualia
What it was like
Bagualia was an early sauropod, a long-necked plant eater. It is known from a skull and part of the skeleton. It had strong jaws and thick, sturdy teeth, suited to tough plants such as conifers.
Its world
It lived in the Early Jurassic, in what is now Argentina. It comes from the Cañadón Asfalto Formation, where it shared the land with the sauropod Patagosaurus and the predators Piatnitzkysaurus and Eoabelisaurus. Its time followed a period of volcanic activity and climate change, when big sauropods like it took over from other plant eaters.
How it was found
Pol and colleagues named Bagualia in 2020.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Eusauropoda
Sources: WikidataNamed in: D. Pol, J. Ramezani, and K. Gomez, J. L. Carballido, A. Paulina Carabajal, O. W. M. Rauhut, I. H. Escapa, N. R. Cúneo. 2020. Extinction of herbivorous dinosaurs linked to Early Jurassic global warming event. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 287:20202310:1-7