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- Nigersaurus abstract "Nigersaurus (meaning "Niger reptile") is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur that lived during the middle Cretaceous period, about 115 to 105 million years ago. It was discovered in the Elrhaz Formation in an area called Gadoufaoua, in the Republic of Niger. Fossils of this dinosaur were first described in 1976, but it was only named in 1999 after further and more complete remains were found and described. The genus contains a single species, Nigersaurus taqueti, named after French palaeontologist Philippe Taquet, who discovered the first remains.Nigersaurus was 9 metres (30 feet) long, which is small for a sauropod, and had a short neck. It weighed around four tonnes, comparable to a modern elephant. Its skeleton was highly pneumatised (filled with air spaces connected to air sacs), but the limbs were robustly built. Its skull was very specialised for feeding, with large fenestrae and thin bones. It had a wide muzzle filled with more than 500 teeth, which were replaced at a rapid rate: around every 14 days. The jaws may have borne a keratinous sheath. Unlike other tetrapods, the tooth-bearing bones of its jaws were rotated transversely relative to the rest of the skull, so that all of its teeth were located far to the front.The closest relatives of Nigersaurus are grouped within the subfamily Nigersaurinae of the family Rebbachisauridae, which is part of the sauropod superfamily Diplodocoidea. Nigersaurus was probably a browser, and fed with its head close to the ground. The region of its brain that detected smell was underdeveloped, although its brain size was comparable to that of other dinosaurs. There has been debate on whether its head was habitually held downwards, or horizontally like other sauropods. It lived in a riparian habitat, and its diet probably consisted of soft plants, such as ferns, horsetails, and angiosperms. It is one of the most common fossil vertebrates found in the area, and shared its habitat with other dinosaurian megaherbivores, as well as large theropods and crocodylomorphs.".
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- Nigersaurus wikiPageID "21491601".
- Nigersaurus wikiPageLength "26890".
- Nigersaurus wikiPageOutDegree "179".
- Nigersaurus wikiPageRevisionID "679425077".
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink 1999_in_paleontology.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Adduction.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Air_sac.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Albian.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Amazonsaurus.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Anatomical_terms_of_motion.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Anatosuchus.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Angiosperms.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Antarctosaurus.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Aptian.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Aquatic_plant.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Araripesuchus.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Attrition_(dental).
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Basal_(phylogenetics).
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Brain-to-body_mass_ratio.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Brazil.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Browsing_(herbivory).
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Cancellous_bone.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Canopy_(biology).
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Carbonate_platform.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Carbonate_platforms.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cretaceous_dinosaurs.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dinosaurs_of_Africa.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fossil_taxa_described_in_1999.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Rebbachisaurids.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Cathartesaura.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Ceratopsia.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Ceratopsian.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Cerebrum.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Cervical_vertebrae.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Chelonians.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Clade.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Cladogram.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Coelurosauria.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Coelurosaurian.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Comahuesaurus.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Conifers.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Convergent_evolution.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Conveyor_belt.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Crocodylomorph.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Crocodylomorpha.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Crocodylomorphs.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Crown_(dentistry).
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Cycad.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Cycads.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Darren_Naish.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Darth_Vader.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Demandasaurus.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Dicraeosaurid.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Dicraeosauridae.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Dicraeosaurus.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Diplodocid.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Diplodocoid.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Diplodocoidea.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Diplodocus.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Early_Cretaceous.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Elephant.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Elrhaz_Formation.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Elrhazosaurus.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Endocast.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Eocarcharia.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Equisetum.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Femur.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Fenestra_(anatomy).
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Fern.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Floodplain.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Flowering_plant.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Fluvial.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Gadoufaoua.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Genus.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Gondwana.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Hadrosaur.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Hadrosaurid.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Hadrosaurs.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Herbaceous.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Herbaceous_plant.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Histriasaurus.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Holotype.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Horizon_(geology).
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Horsetails.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Hybodont.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Hybodontidae.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Iguanodontia.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Iguanodontian.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Inner_ear.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Isle_of_Wight.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Jeffrey_A._Wilson.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Jobaria.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Junior_synonym.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Keratin.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Keratinous.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Kryptops.
- Nigersaurus wikiPageWikiLink Lamina_of_the_vertebral_arch.