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long-neck giant
Bajadasaurus
Say it like this: “bah-HAH-dah-SOR-us”
Bajadasaurus pronuspinax
Bajadasaurus ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Argentina.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) · roughly 137.1 to 132.6 million years ago
- Named in
- 2019 · Gallina, P. A.; Apesteguía, S.; Canale, J. I.; Haluza, A.
- Hip height
- 2.5 m · 8 ft
- Length
- 11.5 m · 38 ft
- Weight
- 2.2 tonnes
- Found in
- Argentina · Bajada Colorada
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- long-neck giant · Sauropod
- Family branch
- Dicraeosauridae
The story in short
In 2019, P. A. Gallina and colleagues published the name Bajadasaurus. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Bajadasaurus date to the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian), roughly 137.1 to 132.6 million years ago. Finds come from Argentina, including the Bajada Colorada Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Bajadasaurus at a length near 11.5 m, hips about 2.5 m high, and a body mass around 2.2 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Dicraeosauridae, among the sauropod dinosaurs.