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, S. Abdallah in 1910

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: P. M. Sander. 1999. Life history of Tendaguru sauropods as inferred from long bone histology. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaften Reihe 2:103-112 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97544: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.08.2010

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