Tendaguru Quarry B (Jurassic of Tanzania)

Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.2° 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: mesofossils

Collected by E. Fraas, B. Sattler in 1907; reposited in the MfN, SMNS

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

Primary reference: E. Fraas. 1908. Ostafrikanische Dinosaurier [East African dinosaurs]. Palaeontographica 55(61):105-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47154: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.02.2005, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
? Megalosaurus ingens n. sp.1 Janensch 1920 tetanuran theropod
MB.R.1050, tooth
 Saurischia -
"Gigantosaurus robustus n. sp." = Janenschia robusta
"Gigantosaurus robustus n. sp." = Janenschia robusta Fraas 1908 sauropod
SMNS 12144 - holotype; topotypes: MfN MB.R.2090.1-4
 Pterosauria -
Pterodactylus maximus n. sp.3 Reck 1931 pterosaur
MB.R.2844 (holotype), ulna