Jobaria tiguidensis
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Jobaria 18 m (60 ft) long
as long as 11 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 18 m (60 ft)
- Period
- Middle Jurassic (167–161 Mya)
- Place
- Niger
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Jobaria is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Niger during the middle Jurassic Period, between 164 and 161 million years ago. Jobaria is currently the only known valid sauropod from the Tiouraren, where it was discovered in 1997.
What we know
- Named by Sereno et al., 1999.
- Body length estimated at about 18.2 m.
- Fossils found in Niger.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Jobaria — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.