Jobaria tiguidensis - Cretaceous Dinosaurs
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(joe-bar-ee-uh)
named after the Tuareg mythical creature "Jobar"
Describer Sereno, Beck, Dutheil, Larsson, Lyon, Moussa,
Sadleir, Sidor, Varricchio, Wilson & Wilson 1999
Also Known As --
Type of Species tighidensis
Order Saurischia
SubOrder Sauropodomorpha
InfraOrder Sauropoda
Micro-Order --
Family
Size 70 feet (21.3 meters) long
Period Early Cretaceous, 130 million years ago
Fossilsite Niger
Diet Herbivore
Jobaria lived during the Early Cretaceous Period, about 130 million years ago in what is now Niger. Jobaria was discovered in the Sahara desert in 1997. It had a short neck of only 12 cervical bones know from a number of individuals. Jobaria's skull is built of very fragile bones and has very large openings for the nose and eyes, it probably had a kin sense of smell and hearing. Its teeth were spoon shaped and are similar to those of earlier sauropods, they were well adapted for striping leaves from branches on trees. A completely articulated adult skeleton and a partial skeleton and skull have allowed paleontologist to reconstruct about 95% of this dinosaur.
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