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Nigersaurus
© Berislav Krzic
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A partial Nigersaurus skull and numerous postcranial bones have been found.
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- Pronounced
- nee-zhayr-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- Niger lizard
- Length
- 15m
- Diet
- herbivorous
- When it lived
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Early Cretaceous
(121 - 99 million years ago) - Found in
- Niger, Algeria, Tunisia
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Diplodocoidea, Rebbachisauridae, Nigersaurus
- Named by
- Sereno, Beck, Dutheil, Larsson, Lyon, Moussa, Sadleir, Sidor, Varricchio, Wilson & Wilson (1999)
- Type species
- taqueti