Jobaria

Jobaria
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic,
Skeletons of Jobaria (juvenile) and Suchomimus, two dinosaurs from Niger which did not coexist
Scientific 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. Jobaria is currently the only known valid sauropod from the Tiouraren, where it was discovered in 1997.

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