Agustinia

Agustinia; Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 116–108 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Agustinia in its natural habitat
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:	†Sauropoda
Clade:	†Somphospondyli
Family:	†Agustiniidae; Bonaparte, 1999
Genus:	†Agustinia; Bonaparte, 1999
Type species
	†Agustinia ligabuei; Bonaparte, 1999

Agustinia is a genus of sauropod dinosaur with a type of armour unique to Agustinia individuals only. It lived about 116 to 100 million years ago in Argentina.^[1] The type species (Agustinia lugabuei) is named in honour of Dr. Giancarlo Ligabue, the discoverer of Augustinia. The original generic name was "Augustia", which, as it turned out, was already preoccupied by a beetle (see also: Megapnosaurus, Protognathosaurus).

References[change | change source]

↑ Bonaparte, J.F. 1999. An armoured sauropod from the Aptian of northern Patagonia, Argentina. In: Tomida, Y., Rich, T. H. & Vickers-Rich, P. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium Tokyo: National Science Museum Monographs #15. Pp. 1–12.

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[b1999-1] Bonaparte, J.F. 1999. An armoured sauropod from the Aptian of northern Patagonia, Argentina. In: Tomida, Y., Rich, T. H. & Vickers-Rich, P. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium Tokyo: National Science Museum Monographs #15. Pp. 1–12.

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