Ouarzazate (south), Sep. 24 - Morocco has allocated some USD 437,483 to build a museum that will host Tazoudasaurus Naimi in the "Iminoulawen" vally of the southern city of Ouarzazate.
The fossilized skeleton of the 180-year-old Tazoudasaurus Naimi was discovered by a team of international paleontologists headed by French Philippe Taquet in the end of the past century.
Tazoudasaurus naimi is a vulcanodontid sauropod dinosaur hailing from the Early Jurassic Toundoute overthrust beds located in the High Moroccan Atlas Mountains. The remains, consisting of a partial adult skeleton and associated partial juvenile skeleton found in continental detrital sediments, were described by Ronan Allain et al. in early 2004.
The generic name derives from one of the localities, Tazouda, while the specific epithet is a latinization of the Arabic term for slender due to the animal’s small size for a sauropod.
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The fossilized skeleton of the 180-year-old Tazoudasaurus Naimi was discovered by a team of international paleontologists headed by French Philippe Taquet in the end of the past century.
Tazoudasaurus naimi is a vulcanodontid sauropod dinosaur hailing from the Early Jurassic Toundoute overthrust beds located in the High Moroccan Atlas Mountains. The remains, consisting of a partial adult skeleton and associated partial juvenile skeleton found in continental detrital sediments, were described by Ronan Allain et al. in early 2004.
The generic name derives from one of the localities, Tazouda, while the specific epithet is a latinization of the Arabic term for slender due to the animal’s small size for a sauropod.
Source| MAP