Tendaguru quarry IX (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)

• Upper Transitional Sands = base of member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Janensch, M. Keranje, Boheti in 1909

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• total NISP approx. 150

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 47145: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.02.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Kentrosaurus aethiopicus2 Hennig 1915 ornithischian
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.4 sauropod
"var. gracilis"
Eusauropoda indet.3 Upchurch 1995 sauropod
HMN MB.R.2096.1; IX v3, 1i
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
"Brachiosaurus brancai" = Giraffatitan brancai1
"Brachiosaurus brancai" = Giraffatitan brancai1 Janensch 1914 brachiosaurid
IX 1
Cephalopoda
 Belemnoida -
Belemnoida indet.1 Gray 1849 belemnite