Tendaguru quarry 69a (Jurassic of Tanzania)

Also known as Graben mit Vogelknochen

Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 17.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Dinosaur Member (Tendaguru Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• formerly Upper Saurian Bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: H. Reck. 1931. Die deutschostafrikanischen Flugsaurier [The German East African pterosaurs]. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Abteilung B: Geologie und Paläontologie 7:321-336 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89996: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.06.2009, edited by Matthew Carrano and Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Dsungaripteroidea indet.2 pterosaur
MB.R.4528 (listed as MB.R.2828), partial humerus representing a new unnamed taxon
Rhamphorhynchoidea indet.4 Plieninger 1901 pterosaur
 Pterosauria - Rhamphorhynchidae
Rhamphorhynchus tendagurensis n. sp. Reck 1931 pterosaur
MB.R.2845 (holotype), distal ulna and radius
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
Lepidotes sp.1 Agassiz 1832 gar
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