page_title: Rebbachisaurus
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Rebbachisaurus / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Rebbachisaurus garasbae, Early Cretaceous of North Africa. Digital.
context_page_description: Rebbachisaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur of the superfamily Diplodocoidea, that lived during the Early–Late Cretaceous period in Africa about 99 million years ago. Remains attributed to Rebbachisaurus have been found in Morocco, Niger, Algeria and Tunisia, although only the Moroccan remains can be referred to the genus without doubt. The discovery of Rayososaurus, a South American sauropod nearly identical to Rebbachisaurus, supports the theory that there was still a land connection between Africa and South America during the Early Cretaceous, long after it was commonly thought the two continents had separated.
context_section_description: In 2010, Gregory S. Paul estimated Rebbachisaurus at 14 metres (46 ft) and 7 metric tons (7.7 short tons). Holtz gave a bigger length of 20 metres (66 ft). In 2020 Molina-Pérez and Larramendi gave a larger estimation of 26 meters (85.3 ft) and 40 tonnes (44 short tons). It possessed a small head, a long, graceful neck and a whiplike tail. Rebbachisaurus is distinguished from other sauropods by its unusually tall, ridged back and the spine or sail that lay atop its back, distinguished by the tall ridges of the preserved dorsal vertebrae of the holotype and other specimens.
caption: Restoration of R. garasbae, the type species
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