© Berislav Krzic
- Type of dinosaur:
- sauropod
- Length:
- 15.0m
- Diet:
- herbivorous
- When it lived:
- Early Cretaceous, 121-99 million years ago
- Found in:
- Algeria,
- Niger,
- Tunisia
A partial Nigersaurus skull and numerous postcranial bones have been found.
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda, Diplodocoidea, Rebbachisauridae
- Named by:
- Sereno, Beck, Dutheil, Larsson, Lyon, Moussa, Sadleir, Sidor, Varricchio, Wilson & Wilson (1999)
- Type species:
- taqueti
