Outline: a typical sauropod
Bonitasaura
- Lived
- 86 to 84 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 10 m (33 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Argentina
- Named by
- Apesteguía 2004
Size comparison
To scale
Scale in metersOutline: typical sauropod shape
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
80 million years ago
Field notes
About Bonitasaura
What it was like
Bonitasaura was a titanosaur, a long-necked, four-legged plant eater, about 10 meters (33 feet) long. It had a squared-off lower jaw and a sharp, horny edge behind its teeth, which may have worked like a pair of scissors to cut plants.
Its world
It lived about 86 to 84 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. Its bones come from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation, where it shared the land with the small hunters Velocisaurus and Alvarezsaurus, and the abelisaur Viavenator.
How it was found
Apesteguía named Bonitasaura in 2004, from a single partial skeleton of a young animal.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Eutitanosauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. Apesteguía. 2004. Bonitasaura salgadoi gen. et sp. nov.: a beaked sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Naturwissenschaften 91(10):493-497