Bagualia
Name: Bagualia
(wild horse).
Phonetic: Bah-gwa-le-ah.
Named By: D. Pol, J. Ramezani, K. Gomez,
J. L. Carballido, A. Paulina Carabajal, O. W. M.
Rauhut, I. H. Escapa & N. R. Cúneo - 2020.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilai, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda.
Species: B. alba (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain due to lack of remains, but
roughly estimated to be about 12 meters long.
Known locations: Argentina - Cańadon Asfalto
Formation.
Time period: Early Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains of the skull
and partial post cranial remains.
Bagualia
is a genus of sauropodomorph
dinosaur that lived in South America
during the early Jurassic. Although no way near as large as the
sauropods
of the late Jurassic, Bagualia was
still well on the road
to growing to large sizes, and much larger than the more primitive
sauropods and sauropodomorph dinosaurs of the late Triassic.
Further reading
- Extinction of herbivorous dinosaurs linked to Early Jurassic global
warming event. - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological
Sciences. 287 (1939): Article ID 20202310. - D. Pol,
J. Ramezani, K. Gomez, J. L. Carballido, A. Paulina
Carabajal, O. W. M. Rauhut, I. H. Escapa & N.
R. Cúneo - 2020.
- The axial skeleton of Bagualia alba (Dinosauria: Eusauropoda) from
the Early Jurassic of Patagonia. - Palaeontologia Electronica. - Kevin
Leonel Gomez, Jose Luis Carballido & Diego Pol - 2021.
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