Rebbachisaurus Rebbachisaurus

Rebbachisaurus (meaning “Aït Rebbach lizard”) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Africa during the Late Cretaceous period, between 99 and 97 million years ago. The only valid species is R. garasbae. However, two other species have been assigned to the genus; R. tessonei, now Limaysaurus tessonei, and the nomen dubium R. tamesnensis. Known from a single, incomplete skeleton, much of R. garasbae’s anatomy is unknown. The skeleton, discovered in 1948, was unearthed in the Errachidia Province of Morocco from strata of the Kem Kem Beds.

Like other rebbachisaurids, Rebbachisaurus was a four-legged herbivore with a long neck ending in a relatively large head. Although once thought to be as long as 20 m in length, more recent estimates place it at 14 m long and weighing 7 – 12 MT. This would make it among the largest known rebbachisaurids.