Reptilia - Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae
Full reference: P. C. Sereno, A. L. Beck, D. B. Dutheil, H. C. E. Larsson, G. H. Lyon, B. Moussa, R. W. Sadleir, C. A. Sidor, D. J. Varricchio, G. P. Wilson, and J. A. Wilson. 1999. Cretaceous sauropods from the Sahara and the uneven rate of skeletal evolution among dinosaurs. Science 286:1342-1347
Parent taxon: Nigersaurinae according to P. D. Mannion et al. 2019
See also Apesteguía 2007, Carballido et al. 2010, Carballido et al. 2012, Dalla Vecchia 2005, Dieudonné et al. 2016, Díez Díaz et al. 2012, Fanti et al. 2015, Gallina et al. 2002, Gallina and Apesteguía 2005, Harris and Dodson 2004, Ibiricu et al. 2012, Ibiricu et al. 2015, Ksepka and Norell 2010, Mannion 2009, Mannion et al. 2011, Mannion et al. 2012, Paulina-Carabajal and Calvo 2021, Remes 2006, Salgado et al. 2006, Salgado and Coria 2005, Salisbury et al. 2016, Sereno et al. 1999, Sereno and Wilson 2005, Suteethorn et al. 2010, Torcida Fernández-Baldor and Canudo 2013, Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. 2003, Upchurch et al. 2004, Whitlock 2011, Wilson 2002, Wilson and Allain 2015 and Xing et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Demandasaurus, Itapeuasaurus, Rebbachisaurus, Tataouinea
Subtaxa: Nigersaurus taqueti
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Niger (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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