Tendaguru quarry Ig, Kindope: Late Kimmeridgian, Tanzania
collected by W. Janensch, H. Reck, Parkinson 1910–1913, 1927
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopterygii
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Actinopterygii indet.
Cope 1887
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Arratia et al. 2002 | |||||||||
scales | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Amphilestidae
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Tendagurodon janenschi n. gen., n. sp.
Heinrich 1998
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Heinrich 1998 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
MB.Ma.46911 (a lower, right cheek tooth) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Haramyidae
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Haramyidae indet.
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Heinrich 2001 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
MB.Ma.50070 (crown) | ||||||||||
Staffia aenigmatica n. gen., n. sp.
Heinrich 1999
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Heinrich 1999 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
MB.Ma.48080; 50069 (lower cheek tooth crown) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Peramura
- Peramuridae
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Tendagurutherium dietrichi n. gen., n. sp.
Heinrich 1998
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Heinrich 1998 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
MB.Ma.46910 (fragment of a right dentary with the last molar) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Crocodylomorpha indet.
(Hay 1930)
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Heinrich 1998 | |||||||||
teeth of 'crocodiles' | ||||||||||
= cf. Bernissartia sp.
Dollo 1883
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Heinrich 2001 | |||||||||
Sauropoda indet.
(Marsh 1878)
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Heinrich 1998 | |||||||||
sauropod teeth; 2 uncat. IG materials | ||||||||||
Titanosauriformes indet.
Salgado et al. 1997
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Schwarz et al. 2023 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Ig 497-498, cervical vertebra | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Brachiosauridae
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Brachiosaurus brancai
Janensch 1914
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Janensch 1935 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
Jg 415; Ig uncat. materials | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Heinrich 1998 | |||||||||
theropod teeth | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Noasauridae
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Elaphrosaurus bambergi
Janensch 1920
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Janensch 1925 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
posterior dorsal vertebra, right phalanx I–1 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Ornithischia indet.
(Seeley 1888)
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Heinrich 1998 | |||||||||
ornithischian teeth | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Dryosauridae
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Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki n. gen., n. sp.
Virchow 1919
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thousands of bones, incl. HMN dyA, dyB; BSPG AS I 834; many uncat. IG specimens (21 measurements) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus
(Hennig 1915)
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Hennig 1936 | 12 specimens | ||||||||
WJ8536, MB.R.3798, WJ60 (MB.R.3806.1, 2), Jg 436 (MB.R.4569), WJ88 (MB.R.4830); Ig uncat. materials | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Pterosauria
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Pterosauria indet.
(Kaup 1834)
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Heinrich 1998 | |||||||||
teeth of 'pterosaurs' | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Pterosauria
- Tendaguripteridae
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Tendaguripterus recki n. gen., n. sp.
Unwin and Heinrich 1999
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Unwin and Heinrich 1999 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
MB.R.1290 (holotype), mandibular symphysis | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Paramacellodidae
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Squamata indet.
Oppel 1811
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Heinrich 1998 | |||||||||
teeth of 'lizards' | ||||||||||
= Paramacellodidae indet.
Estes 1983
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Broschinski 1999 | |||||||||
Jg 824 (anterior part of dentary) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Tanzania | State/province: | Lindi |
Coordinates: | 9.7° South, 39.2° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 29.4° South, 16.7° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
Key time interval: | Late Kimmeridgian | ||
Age range of interval: | 152.2 - 149.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Tendaguru | Member: | Middle Dinosaur | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: formerly Middle Saurian Bed
Scwarz et al. 2023: at least three levels within the member contain Dysalotosaurus bonebeds at this site. Heinrich (2001): Miospore and dinoflagellate assemblages recovered from matrix, housed in the Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin (Institut fur Palaontologie), suggest a Kimmeridgian to Tithonian age for bone bed Wj (Schrank 1999, 2000), whereas associated charophytes (Schudack 1999) and ostracods (Schudack & Schudack 2001) indicate a Kimmeridgian age for this bone-bearing deposit. Further biostratigraphic studies are needed to determine more precisely the age of the two bone beds at Tendaguru Site dy. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | intraclastic,gray,green,red sandy siltstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "greenish-grey and reddish sandy marls"; "intraclast-bearing sandy siltstone" | |
Environment: | channel lag |
Geology comments: tidal channel deposit |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | -bonebed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Associated major elements: | many |
Disassociated major elements: | many |
Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Size sorting: | poor |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,acetic,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taphonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | W. Janensch, H. Reck, Parkinson | Collection dates: | 1910–1913, 1927 |
Collection method comments: Heinrich (1999) dissolved about 500 kg of matrix ('bone bed Wj') housed in the collections of the Museum of Natural History of Humboldt-University, Berlin in acetic acid resulting in discoveries of isolated tetrapod teeth |
Metadata
Also known as: | Quarry Jg, Dysalotosaurus Quarry, quarry WJ, British Expedition | ||
Database number: | 47146 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, R. Benson, R. Butler | Enterer: | M. Carrano, R. Benson, R. Butler |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | taphonomy,vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-02-15 14:31:01 | Last modified: | 2023-02-22 14:20:09 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-02-15 14:31:01 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
18585. | ETE | H. Virchow. 1919. Atlas und Epistropheus bei den Schildkröten [Atlas and axis in the turtles]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1919(8):303-332 [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] | |
41628 | A. Broschinski. 1999. Ein Lacertilier (Scincomorpha, Paramacellodidae) aus dem Oberen Jura von Tendaguru (Tansania). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin: Fossil Record 2(1):155-158 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
12780 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 1983. The cranial anatomy of Dryosaurus, a hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of North America and East Africa, with a review of hypsilophodontids from the Upper Jurassic of North America. Geologica et Palaeontologica 17:207-243 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
12800 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 1988. Skull bones and endocranial casts of stegosaurian dinosaur Kentrosaurus Hennig, 1915 from Upper Jurassic of Tanzania, East Africa. Geologica et Palaeontologica 22:123-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
24821 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 2007. Teeth of ornithischian dinosaurs (mostly Ornithopoda) from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of the western United States. In K. Carpenter (ed.), Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs 17-47 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
41626 | W. -D. Heinrich. 1998. Late Jurassic mammals from Tendaguru, Tanzania. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 5(4):269-290 [R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
41629 | W. -D. Heinrich. 1999. First haramiyid (Mammalia, Allotheria) from the Mesozoic of Gondwana. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin: Fossil Record 2(1):159-170 [R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
41627 | W. -D. Heinrich. 2001. New records of Staffia aenigmatica (Mammalia, Allotheria, Haramiyida) from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru in southeastern Tanzania, East Africa. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin: Fossil Record 4(1):239-255 [R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
12562 | ETE | W.-D. Heinrich. 1999. The taphonomy of dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania) based on field sketches of the German Tendaguru Expedition (1909-1913). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaften Reihe 28:25-61 [A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
12607 | ETE | E. Hennig. 1925. Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus. Die Stegosaurier-Funde vom Tendaguru, Deutsch-Ostafrika [Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus. The stegosaur discovery from Tendaguru, German East Africa]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 1(2):101-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
12612 | ETE | E. Hennig. 1936. Ein dentale con Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus Hennig [A dentary of Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus Hennig]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 2(1):309-312 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
78330 | T. R. Hübner and O. W. M. Rauhut. 2007. A juvenile skull of Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia), and implications for cranial ontogeny, phylogeny, and taxonomy in ornithopod dinosaurs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160:366-396 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
12560 | ETE | W. Janensch. 1925. Die Coelurosaurier und Theropoden der Tendaguru-Schichten Deutsch-Ostafrikas [The coelurosaurs and theropods of the Tendaguru Formation of German East Africa]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 1(1):1-100 [A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
12602 | ETE | W. Janensch. 1929. Magensteine bei Sauropoden der Tendaguru-schichten [Sauropod gastroliths from the Tendaguru Beds]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 2(1):137-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
12582 | ETE | W. Janensch. 1935. Die Schädel der Sauropoden Brachiosaurus, Barosaurus und Dicraeosaurus aus den Tendaguru-schichten Deutsch-Ostafrikas [The skulls of the sauropods Brachiosaurus, Barosaurus and Dicraeosaurus from the Tendaguru Beds of German East Africa]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 2(1):145-298 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
12580 | ETE | W. Janensch. 1955. Der Ornithopode Dysalotosaurus der Tendaguruschichten [The ornithopod Dysalotosaurus from the Tendaguru Beds]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 3(3):105-176 [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] | |
78589 | H. Mallison. 2011. The real lectotype of Kentrosaurus aethiopicus Hennig, 1915. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 259(2):197-206 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
13386 | ETE | J. Parkinson. 1930. The Dinosaur in East Africa 1-192 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
80668 | O. W. M. Rauhut and M. T. Carrano. 2016. The theropod dinosaur Elaphrosaurus bambergi Janensch, 1920, from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178(3):546-610 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
83874 | D. Schwarz, G. Fritsch, A. S. Issever and T. Hildebrandt. 2023. Description of contents of unopened bamboo corsets and crates from Quarry Ig/WJ of the Tendaguru locality (Late Jurassic, Tanzania, East Africa) as revealed by medical CT data and the potential of this data under paleontological and historical aspects. Palaeontologia Electronica 26(1):a4:1-26 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
30145 | D. M. Unwin and W. D. Heinrich. 1999. On a pterosaur jaw from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 2:121-134 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |