Locality RRBP 2004–06 (Cretaceous to of Tanzania)

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Mnyamawamtuka moyowamkia n. gen. n. sp.
Mnyamawamtuka moyowamkia n. gen. n. sp. Gorscak and O'Connor 2019 sauropod
RRBP 05834 - holotype