Agustinia
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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).
| Agustinia Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Agustinia |
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| †Agustinia ligabuei Bonaparte, 1999
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Agustinia Media
Skeletal reconstruction of the related contemporary Comahuesaurus
References
- ↑ 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.