Jobaria

Jobaria
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, 167–161 Ma
Cast mounted in rearing pose. Australian Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Clade: Sauropoda
Clade: Eusauropoda
Genus: Jobaria
Sereno et al., 1999
Type species
Jobaria tiguidensis
Sereno et al., 1999

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.[1] Jobaria is currently the only known valid sauropod from the Tiouraren, where it was discovered in 1997.

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