Dinosaur
Amargasaurus
Its known skeleton is almost complete and includes part of the skull.
Two rows of tall spines ran down Amargasaurus's neck and back, giving it a very unusual silhouette.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Amargasaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Dicraeosauridae
- Dicraeosaurids
- Fossil locations
- Argentina
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Amargasaurus
It measured approximately between nine and thirteen meters. It seems like a lot, but it was relatively small when compared to other sauropods, the large long-necked herbivores. Its known skeleton is almost complete and includes part of the skull.
The bony spines are preserved, but scientists are still investigating the tissues that covered them. That explains why illustrations can look different. The uncertainty concerns how those structures were covered, not whether the bones existed.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Amargasaurus cazaui
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- Amargasaurus
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- Dicraeosauridae
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- Living birds
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