Jagüé

Jagüé
Municipality and village
Interactive map of Jagüé
Country Argentina
ProvinceLa Rioja Province
Time zoneUTC−3 (ART)

Jagüé is a municipality and village in Vinchina Department, La Rioja Province in northwestern Argentina.[1]. Its population is 230 as of 2010.

Well-preserved fossil remains of Huayracursor jaguensis, one of the earliest bagualosaurian sauropodomorph dinosaurs, were found here, and the species was named after the village of Jagüé in 2025.[2]

References

  1. ^ Ministerio del Interior (in Spanish)
  2. ^ Hechenleitner, E. Martín; Martinelli, Agustín G.; Rocher, Sebastián; Fiorelli, Lucas E.; Juarez, Malena; Taborda, Jeremías R. A.; Desojo, Julia B. (2025-10-15). "A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes". Nature: 1–6. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09634-3. ISSN 1476-4687.

28°38′S 68°24′W / 28.633°S 68.400°W / -28.633; -68.400

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