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u tenDaguru then anD now
werner Janensch
In the Late Jurassic, Tendaguru was a lagoon
German paleontologist or estuary. Rivers flowed into it, carrying the
Werner Janensch corpses of animals to a mass grave. Sediments
(1878–1969) led the fossilized them, and it is these deposits of red
Tendaguru expedition sandstone that have yielded Africa’s finest
between 1909 and 1913. examples of dinosaurs.
In this remote part
of Tanzania, he Fourteen
discovered the complete bony Plates
skeleton of Brachiosaurus on its back
as well as other
sauropod bones.

elongated, heavy neck
made up one-third of
Barosaurus’s length hind legs were
twice as long as
the front legs
hooFlike
claws on toes

Protective Plates u Kentrosaurus sKeleton
of bone in pairs
along the neck The skeleton of Kentrosaurus reveals its framework.
and upper back It had two rows of bony plates on each side of its
backbone, protecting its neck, shoulders, and the
front part of its back. From its lower back and tail
grew seven pairs of sharp spines.

each sPine
was up to 2 ft
(60 cm) long.

, Kentrosaurus
A stegosaur—the family of plant-eating dinosaurs
whose bodies were protected by spines and plates
of bone—Kentrosaurus had a small head with a
brain that was no bigger than a walnut.

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