Dinosaur
Nigersaurus
Its rows of teeth were grouped at the wide front of its mouth.
Nigersaurus' teeth were concentrated at the wide end of the mouth.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Nigersaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Rebbachisauridae
- Rebbachisaurids
- Fossil locations
- Niger
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Nigersaurus
It had a short neck for a sauropod. The first fossils were described in 1976, but only new, more complete remains allowed it to be named in 1999.
Its story shows the value of finding more complete material. The first bones were described long before researchers had enough elements to name the genus.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Nigersaurus taqueti
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- Nigersaurus
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- Rebbachisauridae
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- Living birds
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