Dinosaur: Tendaguria tanzaniensis
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Length*: | 16 m | 52.5 ft |
Weight*: | 12 tons | 26,455 lb |
*The largest known specimen
Period
Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Tithonian
Details
Status: valid
Autor: Bonaparte, Heinrich & Wild
Year: 2000
Area: Africa
Country: Tanzania
Region: Lindi
Formation: Tendaguru
Other
Material: 2 anterior dorsal vertebrae, referred cervical vertebra ?
References: Mannion, P. D., Upchurch, P., Schwarz, D., & Wings, O. (2019). Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod dinosaur evolution.
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