Nigersaurus
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| phylum | Chordata | Nigersaurus (meaning "Niger lizard") is a genus of diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur from the middle Cretaceous period, about 119 to 99 million years ago during the Aptian or Albian age. Nigersaurus was a plant-eater that had an unusual mouth "shaped like the wide intake slot of a vacuum" that sheared off its plant food with over a hundred very small, sharp teeth.
Previously, such tooth batteries have been known only in hadrosaur and ceratopsian dinosaurs, but the discovery of Nigersaurus showed that at least one sauropod lineage, the rebbachisaurids, had them as well. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Sauropoda |
| clade | Diapsida | |
| order | Saurischia | |
| suborder | Sauropodomorpha | |
| family | Rebbachisauridae | |
| genus | Nigersaurus | |
| species | N. taqueti | |
| Temporal range | Cretaceous |
Nigersaurus Skeleton
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