Tendaguru quarry cc (Jurassic of Tanzania)

Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 17.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• formerly Upper Saurian Bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; gray, green, red, sandy marl

• "greenish-grey and reddish sandy marls"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1909

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• density = 1.6

Primary reference: W.-D. Heinrich. 1999. The taphonomy of dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania) based on field sketches of the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909-1913). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaften Reihe 28:25-61 [A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47142: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.02.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
"Brachiosaurus brancai" = Giraffatitan brancai
"Brachiosaurus brancai" = Giraffatitan brancai Janensch 1914 brachiosaurid
NISP = 15; specimen cc 2