Outline: a typical sauropod
Tataouinea
"Tataouine"
- Lived
- 113 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Rebbachisauridae
- Found in
- Tunisia
- Named by
- Fanti et al. 2013
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
105 million years ago
Field notes
About Tataouinea
What it was like
Tataouinea was a rebbachisaur, a long-necked plant eater from a family related to Diplodocus. It is known from part of the backbone, hips and tail.
Its hip bones were full of air spaces, which made them lighter, like the bones of birds.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now southern Tunisia. Its bones come from the Aïn el Guettar Formation.
How it was found
Fanti and colleagues named Tataouinea in 2013, from a single find. Its species name honors a famous general from ancient North Africa.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Rebbachisauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: F. Fanti, A. Cau, and M. Hassine, M. Contessi. 2013. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Tunisia with extreme avian-like pneumatization. Nature Communications 4:2080: 1-7