During the Early Cretaceous period, approximately 125 million years ago, a very bizarre sauropod dinosaur inhabited what is now northern Patagonia.
Amargasaurus cazaui was a 9-metre-long sauropod with unusually elongated neural spines projecting upwards from its neck vertebrae.
Facts
Period | Cretaceous |
Age | 125 million years old |
Diet | Herbivore |
Height | 2 metres at the hips |
Length | 9 metres |
Weight | roughly 2.5 tonnes |
Discovered at | La Amarga Formation, Neuquén (1991) |
Discovered by | Leonardo Salgado et al |