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