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Ingentia Ingentia prima Apaldetti et al. 2018
/ɪndʒˈɛnʃə/
estimated
Late Triassic (Norian) · 227.3–205.7 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
Argentina
Region
San Juan
Formation
Quebrada del Barro
Dig sites
1
distinct collections
Overview
Ingentia prima is a sauropodomorph dinosaur known from the Late Triassic, roughly 227.3–205.7 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from San Juan, Argentina. It was named by Apaldetti et al. 2018. The species is represented by 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~5%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Ingentia prima sits in deep time
Ingentia
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Ingentia prima's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.