Bonitasaura: Dinosaur of the Day
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#Bonitasaura
Titanosaur that lived in the Cretaceous in what is now Patagonia, in Argentina (found in the Bajo de la Carpa Formation)
Type species is Bonitasaura salgadoi
Named in 2004 by Sebastián Apesteguía
Name refers to the quarry where it was found, "La Bonita"
Species name is in honor of Leonardo Salgado, an Argentine paleontologist, who did a lot of research on sauropods
Name means "pretty lizard"
Found a partial sub-adult, including lower jaw with teeth, partial vertebrae and limb bones
About 33 ft (10 m) long, though may not have grown to be much larger (small for a titanosaur)
Had features similar to diplodocids: similar skull (long and low), and also had front limbs shorter than hind limbs, and whiplash tails
Herbivorous, and had peg-like front teeth, which it used to grab food, and then cropped it with its beak that had a keratin sheath
Had a short neck and high, robust neural spines on its back vertebrae, so probably had strong muscle attachments (because of this, may have been a high browser and exerted its neck while eating)
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