Tendaguria

from Tendaguru (Tendaguru Hill)

• Tendaguru · place name (Tanzania) · Tendaguru Hill, the fossil locality
• -ia · Latin · suffix meaning 'pertaining to a place'

Tendaguria is named after the Tendaguru Hill area in southeastern Tanzania, where its fossils were found. The Tendaguru beds are among the most famous Late Jurassic dinosaur sites in Africa. The Latin-style ending -ia marks it as a name for a place.

Named by

Bonaparte, Heinrich and Wild

Year named

2000

Period

Late Jurassic

Stage

Kimmeridgian

Found in

Tendaguru Formation, Lindi Region, Tanzania

A sauropod dinosaur. The type species is Tendaguria tanzaniensis. It is known from fragmentary remains, mainly vertebrae. Its exact relationships are debated. It has been placed among early neosauropods or non-neosauropod eusauropods, and sometimes among the turiasaurs.