Titanosaurs

The rocks our eggs came from contain fossils of sauropod dinosaurs called Titanosaurs. These dinosaurs are extremely common in South America, although they've also been found in southern North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Among the titanosaurs that are known from the Late Cretaceous rocks from Auca Mahuevo is Neuquensaurus, a close relative of Saltasaurus.

The titanosaur Saltasaurus is well known because it was comletely covered with bony armor imbedded in its skin, presumably for protection from the large meat eating dinosaurs that lived at the time.

The pattern of armor plating in the skin of Saltasaurus is remarkably similar to the patter of bumps on the skin of our Patagonian babies.