Tendaguru quarry ab (Jurassic of Tanzania)

Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° 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)

• formerly Upper Saurian Bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; gray, green, red, sandy marl

• "greenish-grey and reddish sandy marls"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1909

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• density = 3.61; total MNI = 5, total NISP = 37

Primary reference: W. Janensch. 1961. Die Gliedmaszen und Gliedmaszengürtel der Sauropoden der Tendaguru-Schichten [The limbs and limb girdles of the sauropods of the Tendaguru Beds]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 3(4):177-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47141: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.02.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.1 Marsh 1878 sauropod
ab 3, 6, 9, 11-29, 44, 46
 Sauropoda -
Sauropoda indet.2 Marsh 1878 sauropod
HMN.MB.R.2580 (ab 4), ab 5
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
"? Brachiosaurus brancai" = Giraffatitan brancai1
"? Brachiosaurus brancai" = Giraffatitan brancai1 Janensch 1914 brachiosaurid
ab 7-8, uncat. humerus
 Saurischia - Dicraeosauridae
Dicraeosaurus sattleri1 Janensch 1914 dicraeosaurid
ab 1 (MB.R.2631), 2 (MB.R.2655), 10 (MB.R.2657), 18