Where: Mbeya, Tanzania (8.6° S, 32.6° E: paleocoordinates 30.6° S, 17.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mtuka Member (Galula Formation), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 93.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; coarse-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2004-2008
Primary reference: E. Gorscak and P. M. O'Connor. 2019. A new African titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation (Mtuka Member), Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania. PLoS ONE 14(2):e0211412:1-54 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 199773: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.02.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Mnyamawamtuka moyowamkia n. gen. n. sp.
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