Also known as Locality RRBP 2007-02
Where: Mbeya, Tanzania (8.7° S, 32.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 23.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Namba Member (Galula Formation), Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 72.1 Ma)
• Originally thought to be Aptian-Cenomanian, but new dates indicate either Cenomanian-Santonian or Campanian (Widlansky et al. 2018)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified, red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. K. Lund in 25, 2008
Primary reference: J. J. W. Sertich and P. M. O'Connor. 2014. A new crocodyliform from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation, southwestern Tanzania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(3):576-596 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 156028: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 07.05.2014, edited by Graeme Lloyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Reptilia | |
Rukwatitan bisepultus n. gen. n. sp.
| |
Rukwasuchus yajabalijekundu n. gen. n. sp.
Rukwasuchus yajabalijekundu n. gen. n. sp. Sertich and O'Connor 2014 crocodilian RRBP 08630, partial skull including the cranial table, braincase, and interorbital region but lacking the rostrum, anterior palate, lacrimals, jugals, quadratojugals, and mandible
| |