Bravasaurus
Bravasaurus was a small, long-necked plant eater that lived in what is now Argentina. It was a titanosaur, a group of huge sauropods, but Bravasaurus was one of the smallest of its family. It walked on four sturdy legs and munched on leaves with its peg-like teeth.14
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tan longo coma 7 cans do fociño á cola🍌tan longo coma 39 plátanos postos un tras outro
tan pesado coma 140 cans🍉tan pesado coma 580 sandías🎒tan pesado coma 4 clases enteiras de nenos🐻❄️tan pesado coma 6 osos polares🏃podería correr 100 metros en 16 segundos (o humano máis rápido necesita 9,6)Como era de grande Bravasaurus comparado CONTIGO?
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Datos curiosos
Bravasaurus is one of the smallest titanosaurs ever found. Scientists think it weighed about 3 tons, much less than giants like Argentinosaurus.2
Its name comes from Laguna Brava, a lake in Argentina, and 'arrierosorum' honors the people who crossed the Andes with cattle in the 1800s.1
Fossils of Bravasaurus were found in rocks that are between 83.6 and 66 million years old, from the Late Cretaceous period.4
The place where Bravasaurus was found, Quebrada de Santo Domingo, is one of the largest dinosaur nesting sites in the world. Scientists found many titanosaur eggs there.2
Bravasaurus had a slender fibula, a bone in the lower leg, which is unusual for a sauropod. Its fibula was very thin compared to its length.2
Unlike some dwarf titanosaurs that lived on islands, Bravasaurus lived inland, far from the sea.2

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Bravasaurus
Cazamitos
Mito: All sauropods were gigantic, like Argentinosaurus.
Verdade: Not all sauropods were huge. Bravasaurus was a small titanosaur, weighing only about 3 tons, which is small compared to its giant relatives.2
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Bravasaurus
- Bautizado por
- Hechenleitner et al. 20204
- Grupo
- Pescozos longos
- Familia / clado
- Rinconsauria4
- Clasificación
- Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria4
- Idade das rochas
- de 84 a 66 millóns de anos (Campanian / Maastrichtian)4
- Formacións rochosas
- Ciénaga del Río Huaco4
- Países
- Arxentina4
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database4
- Descubrimento
- Bravasaurus was named in 2020 by Hechenleitner and colleagues. They found its fossils in the Ciénaga del Río Huaco Formation in La Rioja, Argentina.42
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are still debating exactly how Bravasaurus is related to other titanosaurs. Some studies suggest it is closely related to species from Patagonia and Brazil, but the exact family tree is not fully agreed upon.2
De onde veñen os datos
- Two Late Cretaceous sauropods reveal titanosaurian dispersal across South America - PMC (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Two Late Cretaceous sauropods reveal titanosaurian dispersal across South America | Communications Biology (preview-www.nature.com)
- Bravasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Bravasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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