Jobaria
Field photograph to come
Jobaria
DV-0442 · type species Jobaria tiguidensis
- Lived
- 162 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 21 m (69 ft)
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Niger
- Named by
- Sereno et al. 1999
Field notes
About Jobaria
Jobaria was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 162 to 143 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Jobaria, from Niger. Its fossils come from the Tiourarén Formation. It was named by Sereno et al. in 1999.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
150 million years ago
To scale
How big was Jobaria?
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Eusauropoda.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. C. Sereno, A. L. Beck, and D. B. Dutheil, H. C. E. Larsson, G. H. Lyon, B. Moussa, R. W. Sadleir, C. A. Sidor, D. J. Varricchio, G. P. Wilson, J. A. Wilson. 1999. Cretaceous sauropods from the Sahara and the uneven rate of skeletal evolution among dinosaurs. Science 286:1342-1347