Tendaguru quarry Y (Jurassic of Tanzania)

Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° S, 16.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Dinosaur Member (Tendaguru Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• formerly Middle Saurian Bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Janensch, M. Saidi in 1910

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• density = 1.1

Primary reference: W. Janensch. 1914. Übersicht über die Wirbeltierfauna der Tendaguru-Schichten [Overview of the vertebrate fauna of the Tendaguru beds]. Archiv für Biontologie 3:81-110 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47148: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.02.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
"Brachiosaurus fraasi n. sp." = Giraffatitan brancai
"Brachiosaurus fraasi n. sp." = Giraffatitan brancai Janensch 1914 brachiosaurid
NISP = 23; Y8, 12, 18, 25