Tendaguru 25 - Mikadi-Plateau, Mbenkuru, right bank: Valanginian - Hauterivian, Tanzania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra minos
few category
Exogyra couloni
common category
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Alectryonia (Arctostrea) rectangularis
rare category
spelled with current rank as Ostrea (Alectryonia)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervilleia (Gervillella) sp. (Defrance 1820)
common category
original and current combination Gervillia
Aviculoides-group
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814
few category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbicularis
var. germanica
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea kraussi
genus unclear
Cucullaea gabrielis
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya gigantea (Sowerby 1836)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium (Tendagurium) rothpletzi
rare category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Cyprina (Venilicardia) sublineolata n. sp.
common category
original and current combination Venilicardia
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Glossidae
? Isocardia sp. Lamarck 1799
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Sphaera corrugata Sowerby 1822
common category
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia muelleri
Trigonia (Laevitrigonia) schwarzi Müller 1900
few category
recombined as Rutitrigonia schwarzi
see common names

Geography
Country:Tanzania
Coordinates: 9.6° South, 39.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.4° South, 18.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Valanginian - Hauterivian
Age range of interval:139.80000 - 129.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Member:Trigonia Schwarzi Bed
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine lithified sandstone
Environment:marginal marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:79263
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-02-29 02:16:18 Last modified:2008-02-29 04:16:18
Access level:the public Released:2008-02-29 02:16:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26538. W. O. Dietrich. 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie der Tendaguruschichten. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII/2, Teil 2 1-86 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]