Ingentia prima

"first huge one"

Generic sauropod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Ingentia 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic sauropod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Ingentia
Length
5 m (16.4 ft)
Period
Late Triassic (237–201 Mya)
Place
Argentina
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Lessemsauridae

Ingentia is a genus of early sauropodiform dinosaur, sometimes considered a basal sauropod, from the Late Triassic (late Norian-Rhaetian) of Argentina. The type specimen of Ingentia, PVSJ 1086, was discovered in the Quebrada del Barro Formation of northwestern Argentina. It was described in 2018 by Cecilia Apaldetti, Ricardo Nestor Martínez, Ignacio Alejandro Cerda, Diego Pol and Oscar Alcober who named the type and only species Ingentia prima, meaning “first huge one”, as the taxon was one of the first very large sauropodomorphs to evolve, along with its close relative Lessemsaurus. A second specimen, PVSJ 1087, was referred, containing five tail vertebrae, both ulnae and radii, a left calfbone and a right foot.

What we know

  • Named by Apaldetti et al., 2018.
  • Fossils found in Argentina.

What we guess

The reconstruction notes for Ingentia — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.