STAT SHEET
JOBARIA TIGUIDENSIS
Silhouette showing the Jobaria bones recovered by Dr. Sereno and his team. The human figure illustrates Jobaria's size. The scale bar is 1 meter long; the human is about 5' 6" (1.7 meters) tall.
Name: Jobaria tiguidensis
(JO-BAR-EE-UH TI-GI-DEN-SIS)

Type of dinosaur: sauropod

Age: 135 million years old

Height at the hip: 15 feet (4.5 meters)

Length: 70 feet (21.3 meters)

Weight: 40,000 lbs (18,180 kgs)

Width: 6 feet (1.8 meters) at the chest

Amount of skeleton found: 95%

Location of find: central Niger

Diet: plants

Vertebrae in neck: 12
Looking up at the adult Jobaria. The 60 foot (18 meter) long skeleton is shown rearing 30 feet (9 meters) into the air.
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