Tendaguru quarry M 2 (Jurassic of Tanzania)

Also known as British Expedition

Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 17.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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; poorly lithified, white sandstone

• "a pool in the bed of a river which flowed only during part of the year"
• "soft sandstone or even loose clean white sand"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by M. Deacon & F. W. H. Migeod in 1925-1927, 1929; reposited in the BMNH

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

• collected by M. Deacon and F. W. H. Migeod

Primary reference: F. W. H. Migeod. 1927. British Museum East Africa Expedition. Progress in the year 1926. Natural History Magazine 1(2):34-43 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49820: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
  -
Osteichthyes indet.1 bony fish
"a mass of fish scales"
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
aff. Megalosaurus sp.2 Parkinson 1822 tetanuran theropod
teeth
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.2 Kaup 1834 pterosaur
Cephalopoda
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnoidea indet.2 Hyatt 1884 belemnite