Boheti bin Amrani

Boheti bin Amrani was a Tanzanian farmer. In 1909 he served first as a guide, and then the chief supervisor and preparator for the 1909–1913 German Tendaguru Expedition. A sauropod dinosaur, Australodocus bohetii, was named after him in 2007.

Expeditions On April 12, 1909, Boheti, who owned a plot of land in Lindi, was hired by palaeontologists Werner Janensch and Edwin Hennig as a guide. He travelled with Hennig to the village of Ubolelo, In January of 1911, the German team left Tendaguru. Boheti was still excavating in the area during the arrival of Hans and Ina Reck in 1912, whereupon he was reinstated as head overseer. In 1924, he was hired by anthropologist Louis Leakey. In 2007, a somphospondyl sauropod discovered during the initial 1909 expedition was named Australodocus bohetii after him.