Janenschia
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Janenschia 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Jurassic (155–145 Mya)
- Place
- Tanzania
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Janenschia (named after Werner Janensch) is a genus of large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (around 155 to 145 million years ago) Tendaguru Formation of Lindi Region, Tanzania.
What we know
- Named by (Fraas, 1908).
- Fossils found in Tanzania.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Janenschia — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.