Discovery of a part skeleton of Jobaria tiguidensis

In 2007, on their third stay in Niger, the team probed a new area on the cliffs of Tiguidit, about 50 kilometres south-east of the original discovery site. The giant vertebra bones of a Jobaria tiguidensis (long necked dinosaur) were found at the bottom of a hill, covered by sandstone. A large part of the bones could be covered in plaster. However, the trucks were already too full and the bones were very big, so the team left them in place; under care of the local Tuareg.