Outline: a typical sauropod
Tornieria
"for Tornier"
Type species Janenschia robusta
- Lived
- 152 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Diplodocidae
- Found in
- Tanzania
- Named by
- Sternfeld 1911
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
150 million years ago
Field notes
About Tornieria
What it was like
Tornieria was a long-necked, whip-tailed sauropod from the same family as Diplodocus. Like its relatives, it had a long, low body, peg-like teeth and a very long tail.
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 short-necked Dicraeosaurus, the spiked Kentrosaurus and the predators Ceratosaurus and Elaphrosaurus.
How it was found
Sternfeld gave it the name Tornieria in 1911, replacing an earlier name that was already taken. Its bones were once placed in Barosaurus. There are 6 recorded finds.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Diplodocidae
- GaleamopusLate Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- ArdetosaurusLate Jurassic
- LeinkupalEarly Cretaceous
Sources: WikidataNamed in: R. Sternfeld. 1911. Zur Nomenklatur der Gattung Gigantosaurus Fraas [On the nomenclature of the genus Gigantosaurus Fraas]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 8:398