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This is a life size 3d digital model skull of a Nigersaurus. OBJ, ZTL, PLY, FBX and STL files. jaw is seperated.

Nigersaurus is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur that lived during the middle Cretaceous period, about 115 to 105 million years ago. It was discovered in the Elrhaz Formation in an area called Gadoufaoua, in Niger. Fossils of this dinosaur were first described in 1976, but it was only named Nigersaurus taqueti in 1999 after further and more complete remains were found and described. The genus name means Niger reptile, and the specific name honours the palaeontologist Philippe Taquet, who discovered the first remains.

Small for a sauropod, Nigersaurus was about 9–14.1 m (30–46 ft) long, and had a short neck. It weighed around 1.9–4 t (2.1–4.4 short tons), comparable to a modern elephant. Its skull was very specialised for feeding, with large fenestrae and thin bones. It had a wide muzzle filled with more than 500 teeth, which were replaced at a rapid rate: around every 14 days. The jaws may have borne a keratinous sheath. Unlike other tetrapods, the tooth-bearing bones of its jaws were rotated transversely relative to the rest of the skull, so that all of its teeth were located far to the front. Its skeleton was highly pneumatised (filled with air spaces connected to air sacs), but the limbs were robustly built.

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Stereolithography<br />Version: 25<br />File Size: 117 MB
OBJ
OBJ<br />Version: 25<br />File Size: 96.7 MB
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Other<br />File Size: 137 MB
FBX
Autodesk FBX<br />Version: 25<br />File Size: 94.6 MB
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Ply<br />Version: 25<br />File Size: 47.8 MB
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