Jobaria
Jobaria
- Pronunciation:
- joh-bahr-ee-uh
- Name meaning:
- 'Jobar (mythical animal)'
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- Type of dinosaur:
- sauropod
- Length:
- 21.0m
- Diet:
- herbivorous
- When it lived:
- Early Cretaceous, 132-94 million years ago
- Found in:
- Niger
Jobaria is known from a skull and several skeletons.
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Macronaria
- Named by:
- Sereno, Beck, Dutheil, Larsson, Lyon, Moussa, Sadleir, Sidor, Varricchio, Wilson and Wilson (1999)
- Type species:
- tiguidensis
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