Tendaguru Quarry G (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 W. Janensch, M. Keranje in 1909-1910; reposited in the MfN

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. Hennig. 1925. Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus. Die Stegosaurier-Funde vom Tendaguru, Deutsch-Ostafrika [Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus. The stegosaur discovery from Tendaguru, German East Africa]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 1(2):101-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48349: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.03.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.4 sauropod
G 91
Australodocus bohetii n. gen. n. sp.3 Remes 2007 sauropod
MB.R.2454-2455 [G 68-G 71]
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
"Brachiosaurus brancai" = Giraffatitan brancai1, ? Brachiosaurus sp.3
"Brachiosaurus brancai" = Giraffatitan brancai1 Janensch 1914 brachiosaurid
G 90
? Brachiosaurus sp.3 Riggs 1903 brachiosaurid
G 84
 Saurischia -
Eusauropoda indet.2 Upchurch 1995 sauropod
MB.R.2091.32 (G77)
 Saurischia - Dicraeosauridae
Dicraeosaurus sattleri1 Janensch 1914 dicraeosaurid
G 83
 Saurischia -
cf. Tendaguria sp.2 Bonaparte et al. 2000 sauropod
MfN MB.R.2091.31 (G45) – middle–posterior cervical vertebra
 Saurischia - Mamenchisauridae
Wamweracaudia keranjei n. gen. n. sp.2
Wamweracaudia keranjei n. gen. n. sp.2 Mannion et al. 2019 mamenchisaurid
MB.R.2091.1-30; G 77
 Ornithischia -
Stegosauria indet.3 ornithischian
G 89, femur
Kentrosaurus aethiopicus Hennig 1915 ornithischian