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Niger 1997 ::
	Location:
	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.

Base Camp of the 1997 expedition to Niger

Scientific Announcements:

Jobaria - announced November 11, 1998
Suchomimus - November 11, 1998

Press Release & Jobaria Teaching Resources

http://www.news.uchicago.edu/releases/
99/991111.jobaria.shtml

Project Exploration 's Jobaria Web Site

Highlights:

L-R: Map of Expedition Route, Desert Lizard,
Hoisting the bone of Jobaria on to a truck, Jobaria

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