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long-neck giant
Agustinia
Say it like this: “ah-goo-STEE-nee-uh”
Agustinia ligabuei
Agustinia ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Argentina.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Albian) · roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago
- Named in
- 1999 · Bonaparte, J. F.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 15 m · 49 ft
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- Argentina · Lohan Cura
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Rebbachisauridae
The story in short
The genus Agustinia dates to 1999, the year J. F. Bonaparte described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Albian), roughly 113.2 to 100.5 million years ago. Finds come from Argentina, including the Lohan Cura Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Agustinia at a length near 15 m.
On the family tree it sits in Rebbachisauridae, among the sauropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Amazonsaurus
Amazonsaurus maranhensis
Early Cretaceous (Aptian · Albian) · roughly 121.4 to 100.5 million years ago
Astigmasaura
Astigmasaura genuflexa
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian · Turonian) · roughly 100.5 to 89.8 million years ago
Campananeyen
Campananeyen fragilissimus
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · roughly 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago