Nigersaurus

Early Cretaceous (115-105 Ma)HerbivoreSauropoda

PeriodEarly Cretaceous (115-105 Ma)

DietHerbivore

Length9 m

Weight3,000 kg

LocationNiger

ClassificationSauropoda

About Nigersaurus

A sauropod with a wide vacuum shaped muzzle packed with over 500 tiny teeth in some 50 columns per jaw. Each tooth was replaced about every 14 days, among the fastest rates known. Skull bones were paper thin. Grazed low fern fields like a Mesozoic cow.

Size

9 m longArgentinosaurus: 35 m

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