Tendaguru quarry A: Tithonian, Tanzania
collected by E. Fraas, B. Sattler 1907

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Arratia et al. 2002
teeth
Reptilia
6 specimens
SMNS 12140 (A); HMN.MB.R.2672 (A1), A4
see common names

Geography
Country:Tanzania State/province:Lindi
Coordinates: 9.7° South, 39.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.8° South, 31.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Tithonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 6
Key time interval: Tithonian
Age range of interval: 149.2 - 143.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tendaguru Member:Upper Dinosaur
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: formerly Upper Saurian Bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:intraclastic,gray,green,red sandy siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "intraclast-bearing sandy siltstone" (orig. described as a "marl").
Environment:channel lag
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:E. Fraas, B. Sattler Collection dates:1907
Metadata
Database number:47181
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:taphonomy,vertebrate
Created:2005-02-16 10:14:44 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-02-16 10:14:44
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
51607. E. Fraas. 1908. Ostafrikanische Dinosaurier [East African dinosaurs]. Palaeontographica 55(61):105-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

43685 G. Arratia, J. Kriwet, and W.-D. Heinrich. 2002. Selachians and actinopterygians from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaften Reihe 5:207-230 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
26338ETE E. Fraas. 1908. Dinosaurierfunde in Ostafrika [Dinosaur discovery in East Africa]. Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 64:lxxxiv-lxxxvi [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12585ETE W. Janensch. 1929. Material und Formegehalt der Sauropoden in der Ausbeute der Tendaguru-Expedition, 1909-1912 [Material and figured content of sauropods in the yield of the Tendaguru Expedition, 1909-1912]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 2(1):3-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12603ETE W. Janensch. 1961. Die Gliedmaszen und Gliedmaszengürtel der Sauropoden der Tendaguru-Schichten [The limbs and limb girdles of the sauropods of the Tendaguru Beds]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 3(4):177-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
38705 G. Maier. 2003. African Dinosaurs Unearthed: The Tendaguru Expeditions. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1-380 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
18832ETE K. Remes. 2006. A revision of the Tendaguru sauropod dinosaur Tornieria africana (Fraas) and its relevance for sauropod paleobiogeography. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3):651-669 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]
35581ETE K. Remes. 2007. Revision von "Barosaurus" africanus: Die Diplodociden vom Tendaguru [Revision of "Barosaurus" africanus: the dipldocids of Tendaguru]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (Neue Folge) 45:55-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
31862ETE K. Remes. 2009. Taxonomy of Late Jurassic diplodocid sauropods from Tendaguru (Tanzania). Fossil Record 12(1):23-46 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
42524 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]