Wamweracaudia
Name:
Wamweracaudia
(Wamwera tail).
Phonetic: Wam-wer-cor-de-ah.
Named By: Philip D Mannion, Paul Upchurch,
Daniela Schwarz & Oliver Wings - 2019.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Sauropoda, Mamenchisauridae.
Species: W. keranjei (type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unknown due to lack of fossil remains.
Known locations: Tanzania - Tendaguru Formation.
Time period: Tithonian of the Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Thirty caudal vertebrae.
Wamweracaudia
is a genus of mamenchisaurid sauropod
dinosaur that lived in Africa
during the late Jurassic.
Further reading
- Taxonomic affinities of
the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of
Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod
dinosaur evolution. - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
- Philip D Mannion, Paul Upchurch, Daniela Schwarz &
Oliver Wings - 2019.
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