CollectA 88395 Deluxe (1:40) - Jobaria

23 x 29.5 cm
Jobaria was a plant-eating or sauropod dinosaur that lived about 135 million years ago in what is now Agadez in Niger, West Africa. Jobaria is named after Jobar, a legendary beast that frightens young children (particularly those who misbehave) in this part of Niger, although the dinosaur itself was no threat to others except in defense. Unlike other early Cretaceous sauropods, Jobaria had a much shorter tail and a smaller number of less-complex vertebrae. It weighed about 20 tons and was about 70-75 feet long including the tail. At the field site discovered by Paul Sereno in 1997, roughly 50 specimens were found together, having apparently died in a flash flood. This large number of skeletons indicated that Jobaria traveled in herds, just like the animals that today inhabit that region.