[D] Bonitasaura salgadoi [sG] [T]
Describer
Apesteguia, 2004
Time
Cretaceous Late Santonian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Titanosauria
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Bajo de la Carpa Formation, northwest Rio Negro, about 1300 kilometers of Buenos Aires, Patagonia, Argentina
Length
9 meter
Info
Genus - Typespecies
Bonitasaura salgadoi a juvenile nemegtosaurid titanosaur named after the Bonita Mountains near the discovery site has an unusual, rectangular lower jaw possesses narrow, anteriorly restricted teeth and shows evidence of a sharp keratinous sheath over the non-dentigerous region that probably worked to guillotine plant material. A full grown specimen could have reached an astimated length of 12 meter
Sebastián Apesteguía, was following the footsteps of Walter Schiller and Santiago Roth, who explored the zone in 1922. Although those scientists did not give the exact origin of the bones, Apesteguía, with the student Pablo Hen and the paleoartist Jorge González, followed the indications of Doña Tika, 98 years of age, who had guided the travellers during years \\\' 20 to the fossilbed of Bonitasaura.
Apesteguia, 2004
Time
Cretaceous Late Santonian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Titanosauria
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Bajo de la Carpa Formation, northwest Rio Negro, about 1300 kilometers of Buenos Aires, Patagonia, Argentina
Length
9 meter
Info
Genus - Typespecies
Bonitasaura salgadoi a juvenile nemegtosaurid titanosaur named after the Bonita Mountains near the discovery site has an unusual, rectangular lower jaw possesses narrow, anteriorly restricted teeth and shows evidence of a sharp keratinous sheath over the non-dentigerous region that probably worked to guillotine plant material. A full grown specimen could have reached an astimated length of 12 meter
Sebastián Apesteguía, was following the footsteps of Walter Schiller and Santiago Roth, who explored the zone in 1922. Although those scientists did not give the exact origin of the bones, Apesteguía, with the student Pablo Hen and the paleoartist Jorge González, followed the indications of Doña Tika, 98 years of age, who had guided the travellers during years \\\' 20 to the fossilbed of Bonitasaura.