Nigersaurus taqueti Ankylosaurus Within this ecological context

Within this ecological context

while the tail ended in a well-developed caudal fin

In addition to its horn

this genus was characterized by its small size

approximately 3

Nigersaurus taqueti Ankylosaurus Within this ecological contextNigersaurus taqueti was an extremely specialized rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous period, approximately 115105 million years ago (AptianAlbian), in what is now the Republic of Niger, when much of the present day Sahara was an extensive green fluvial plain with abundant vegetation and large river systems. Its fossils come mainly from the Elrhaz Formation, in the Gadoufaoua region. It was formally described in 1999