Amargasaurus
Trample, Reach
Both the function and the appearance in life of the extremely
elongated and bifurcated vertebral spines remain elusive.Salgado
and Bonaparte suggested the spines represented defense weapons
against predators, arguing that they tapered towards their tips. In
a subsequent skeletal reconstruction drawing, Salgado depicted the
neural spines supporting a keratinous sheath, which could have
added significantly to the total length of the spines.
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