Meet Bajadasaurus!

[suspsy]

A close cousin of Amagasaurus:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37943-3

[Jose S.M.]

That's very good, I love when reasonably good remains of the skull are found, the reconstruction of the spines look crazy.

[DragonRider02]

I can already see CollectA making a figure of it.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

An Amargasaurus that went with the "windswept" look? lol

[Ravonium]

With discoveries like this, 2019 is already set to be a good year for palaeontology 

I can already see CollectA making a figure of it.

Scratch that, it looks like something REBOR would make as a figure 

[suspsy]

I do not buy for one second the idea that those spines evolved as a defence against predators. Display and intimidation are far more likely reasons.

[Bokisaurus]

Ah, now we know what CollectA's new sauropod would be!
Awesome and very interesting sauropod.

[Shonisaurus]

Ah, now we know what CollectA's new sauropod would be!
Awesome and very interesting sauropod.

Although it is in the standard version a bajadasaurus on the part of Collecta would be great.

[Syndicate Bias]

I'd like a resin kit of one or maybe PNSO or Papo should make it!

[amargasaurus cazaui]

very fragmentary remains to base toys off already and seen several paleos on Facebook questioning if the way the spines are bent could be a relic of preservation and given that only one vert was found it might seem a reasonable point

[Brocc21]

There was another thread of this was there? I assume it was deleted?

[Shonisaurus]

The bajadasaurus with this strange ornament reminds me of punk music artists.

[Duna]

More cool pics of Pablo Gallina with the reconstruction of the head-neck:




https://www.deviantart.com/cisiopurple/art/Bajadasaurus-784461033


https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/video/argentina-dinosaurio-bajadasaurus-pronuspinax-conicet-universidad-maimonides-argentina/

[Derek.McManus]

Fascinating creature

[Shonisaurus]

The bajadasaurus seems (if not outside that it existed in reality) a fantasy creature. I hope that Schleich, Papo, Safari, Collecta, Rebor, PNSO or Vitae (to give some examples) make one of the same characteristics in the future.

[ceratopsian]

I just wish the remains were less fragmentary.

[Gothmog the Baryonyx]

Since they only have the one spine, what are the chances its spines actually looked the same as Amargasaurus?

[MoarCrossovers]

Did it live in the same time and place as Amargasaurus?

[Shonisaurus]

It may be time will tell, I suppose the amargasaurus and badajasaurus belong to the same species, that is, a subspecies of amargasaurus, the aforementioned bajadasaurus always and when they belong to the same geological time.

[alexeratops]

I believe that people are jumping to assumptions with the size of these spines, based on the one neck vertebrae we have. Especially considering that the one spine that we have is about half the size of the largest estimated spines. Maybe it's just me.