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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Brancatherulum tendagurense n. gen. n. sp.
Brancatherulum tendagurense n. gen. n. sp. Dietrich 1927 mammal |