Image: Nigersaurus

Description: Partial skeleton of Nigersaurus taqueti (MNN GAD517) discovered during the 2000 Expedition to Niger. Expedition member G. Lyon is seated inside the curve of the proximal caudal vertebrae of a skeleton planed flat by wind-blown sand at a site in Gadoufaoua, Ténéré Desert, Niger.
Title: Nigersaurus
Credit: Sereno PC, Wilson JA, Witmer LM, Whitlock JA, Maga A, et al. Structural Extremes in a Cretaceous Dinosaur. PLoS ONE. 2, 11, e1230. 2007. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0001230[1]
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