Amargasaurus cazaui by Dinoraul
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Description
Amargasaurus (named from La Armaga, a canyon in Argentina where the fossil was found) is a genus of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period (130-125 mya) of what is now South America. It was small for a sauropod, reaching 10 meters (33 feet) length.
The "skin sail" on the neck hypothesis was rejected in 2000.The long spines were obviously covered with flesh and skin insted.It was for mating and dominance rituals and for making it look much larger than it was to predators.
Amargasaurus was an herbivore..It swallowed leaves whole, without chewing them, and had gastroliths in its stomach to help digest the tough plant material. It had blunt long teeth, useful for stripping foliage.
Comments (13)
BiggDevo
Excellent work!
giovanino
wow nice orehistorique scene
Naoo
Nice Composition!
tiff666
Fantastic!
A.C.Wolfe
Always a treat!
demonicusrex
weird looking buggers
mikeerson
looks like a zebra/dragon/dino... Need another CLOSE SHOT... art looks wonderful.
mapps
excellent :-)
scifibabe
Cool dino. I'm not familiar with this one. Wonderful blue skin texture. Nice dino scene.
black222
Great dino scene, Excellent
zollacce
Wonderful work!!
bigbraader
Wonderful model & setup.
DavidEMartin
Interesting to learn the necksail idea has been discarded. Here's a photo of an animatronic Amargasaurus I took a few years back-- http://excalibur.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1156274