Tendaguru unspecified quarry: Brancatherulum type locality (Jurassic of Tanzania)

Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.8° 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)

• Uppermost Dinosaur beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

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

Primary reference: W. O. Dietrich. 1927. Brancatherulum n. g., ein Proplacentalier aus dem obersten Jura des Tendaguru in Deutsch-Ostafrika. Centralblatt fur Mineralogie, Geologie, Palaeontologie Abteilung B 10:423-426 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 131075: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 19.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Pantotheria -
Brancatherulum tendagurense n. gen. n. sp. Dietrich 1927 mammal