African Dinosaurs Unearthed: The Tendaguru Expeditions

by Gerhard Maier

From 1907 to 1931 at Tendaguru, a remote site in present-day Tanzania, teams of German (and later British) paleontologists unearthed 220 tons of fossils, including the bones of a new dinosaur, one of the largest then known. For decades the mounted skeleton of this giant, Brachiosaurus, was the largest skeleton of a land animal on exhibit in the world. The dinosaur and other animal fossils found at Tendaguru form one of the cornerstones of our understanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253342147
• ISBN13: 9780253342140
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher