Tendaguru quarry M 7 (Jurassic of Tanzania)

Also known as British Expedition

Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 17.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Dinosaur Member (Tendaguru Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• two bone levels, 3 ft apart; formerly Upper Saurian Bed

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; gray, green claystone and poorly lithified sandstone

• upper level is "green0sh-grey clay", resting on "a bed of sand...soft sandstone" with bones in former and at contact between the two.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. W. H. Migeod in 1926; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: F. W. H. Migeod. 1927. British Museum East Africa Expedition. Progress in the year 1926. Natural History Magazine 1(2):34-43 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 121241: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.3 Linnaeus 1758 clam
Cephalopoda
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnitida indet.1 Zittel 1895 belemnite
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
? Brachiosaurus sp.2 Riggs 1903 brachiosaurid
unclassified
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Plantae indet.4 Haeckel 1866
tree trunk