Tendaguria
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Tendaguria Temporal range: Late Jurassic, 155 Ma |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Neosauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria |
| Genus: |
†Tendaguria Bonaparte et al., 2000 |
| Species: | †T. tanzaniensis |
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Tendaguria tanzaniensis Bonaparte et al., 2000 |
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Tendaguria (/ˌtɛndəˈɡjʊəriə/ TEN-də-GEWR-ee-ə; meaning "the Tendaguru one") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Tanzania.
In 1911, German geologist Wilhelm Bornhardt at Nambango in German East Africa discovered two sauropod vertebrae, fifteen kilometers (nine miles) southeast of Tendaguru Hill. These were described by Werner Janensch in 1929 but not named.
The finds were formally named by José Fernando Bonaparte, Wolf-Dieter Heinrich and Rupert Wild in 2000. The type species is Tendaguria tanzaniensis (/tænˈzeɪniːˈɛnsɨs/ tan-ZAY-nee-EN-sis) Bonaparte, Heinrich & Wild 2000. The generic name refers to the Tendaguru, the area of the great German palaeontological expeditions between 1909 and 1912. The specific name was "after Tanzania, the country where the holotype was collected". The territory of present Tanzania largely coincides with that of the former German East Africa.
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