Base Camp of the 1997
expedition to NigerLocation: Northern
Niger, Agadez region
Age
of fossil beds: Lower
Cretaceous, 135 million years old; Middle
Cretaceous, 110 million years old.
Primary
Goals: Excavate
dinosaur graveyard, further explore Lower
Cretaceous beds in the region
Accomplishments:
Discovery
of 98% of adult and juvenile Jobaria skeletons; discovery of Suchomimus, a 36-foot
long 110-million year old fish eating predator;
discovery of partial skeleton of Nigersaurus.
Scientific
Announcements:
Jobaria - announced November 11, 1998
Suchomimus - November 11, 1998
Press
Release & Jobaria Teaching Resources
Highlights:
In the Fall of 1997 Dr. Sereno led an 18 person,
four-month expedition to Niger's Sahara Desert
to search for fossils.
The undertaking took more than a year to plan
and required 5 Land Rovers and more two tons of
supplies (including a ton of dehydrated food).
The two notable discoveries made on the expedition
are Suchomimus,
a fish eating theropod, Jobaria,
a large plant eating sauropod.
Learn about the facts of the expedition,
meet the expedition members who made up the team,
read excerpts from the expedition scribe's journals,
and learn about the people they met in african
culture by visiting our Jobaria Web Site |
