Trigonosaurus was a herbivore. It lived in the Cretaceous period and inhabited South America. Its fossils have been found in places such as Minas Gerais (Brazil).
Quick facts about Trigonosaurus:
- Existed from Maastrichtian Age to 66 million years ago
- Lived in a terrestrial habitat
- Was a herbivore
- Reproduced by laying eggs
- 2 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Trigonosaurus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- D. d. A. Campos, A. W. A. Kellner, and R. J. Bertini, R. M. Santucci. 2005. On a titanosaurid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) vertebral column from the Bauru Group, Late Cretaceous of Brazil. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 63(3):565-593
- R. D. Juárez Valieri and S. D. Ríos Díaz. 2013. Assignation of the vertebra CPP 494 to Trigonosaurus pricei Campos et al., 2005 (Sauropoda: Titanosauriformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil, with comments on the laminar variation among lithostrotian titanosaurs. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay 17(1):20-28
