Tendaguria

Field photograph to come

DV-0473Tendaguru Fm., Tanzania

Tendaguria

DV-0473

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

1 find

145 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

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