Tin 7b, Tendaguru: Late Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Tanzania
collected by German-Tanzanian Tendaguru Expedition 2000
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
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Lepidotes sp.
Agassiz 1832
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scales, teeth | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
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Teleostei indet.
Müller 1846
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2 specimens | |||||||||
vertebra, 'pholidophorid'-like scale | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Tanzania | State/province: | Lindi |
Coordinates: | 9.7° South, 39.2° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 29.7° South, 16.9° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
Stage: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 6 |
Key time interval: | Late Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 152.2 - 145 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Tendaguru | Member: | Middle Dinosaur |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | massive sandy siltstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "massive sandy siltstone" | |
Environment: | "channel" |
Geology comments: "tidal channel" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | German-Tanzanian Tendaguru Expedition | Collection dates: | 2000 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Tingutinguti | ||
Database number: | 136585 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2012-11-30 05:39:49 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-11-30 05:39:49 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |