Tendaguria
Field photograph to come
Tendaguria
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- Lived
- 149 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Tanzania
- Named by
- Bonaparte et al. 2000
Field notes
About Tendaguria
Tendaguria was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, 149 to 143 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Tendaguria, from Tanzania. Its fossils come from the Tendaguru Formation. It was named by Bonaparte et al. in 2000.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
145 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Turiasauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. F. Bonaparte, W.-D. Heinrich, and R. Wild. 2000. Review of Janenschia Wild, with the description of a new sauropod from the Tendaguru beds of Tanzania and a discussion on the systematic value of procoelous caudal vertebrae in the Sauropoda. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 256(1-3):25-76