Outline: a typical sauropod
Tendaguria
"the Tendaguru one"
- 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
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
145 million years ago
Field notes
About Tendaguria
What it was like
Tendaguria was a large long-necked sauropod known from two back bones. The bones have very low spines, unlike those of most sauropods.
Its world
It lived in the Late Jurassic in what is now Tanzania. Its bones come from the Tendaguru Formation, a rich site shared with the giant Giraffatitan, the spiked Kentrosaurus and the predators Ceratosaurus and Elaphrosaurus.
How it was found
Bonaparte and colleagues named it in 2000.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Turiasauria
Sources: 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