Tendaguru quarry Ig, Kindope: Late/Upper 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
Actinopterygii indet. Cope 1887
Arratia et al. 2002
scales
Reptilia
Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
Heinrich 1998
theropod teeth
Reptilia - Noasauridae
Elaphrosaurus bambergi Janensch 1920
Janensch 1925 2 specimens
posterior dorsal vertebra, right phalanx I–1
Reptilia
Ornithischia indet. (Seeley 1888)
Heinrich 1998
ornithischian teeth
Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus (Hennig 1915)
Hennig 1936 12 specimens
original and current combination Kentrosaurus aethiopicus
WJ8536, MB.R.3798, WJ60 (MB.R.3806.1, 2), Jg 436 (MB.R.4569), WJ88 (MB.R.4830); Ig uncat. materials
Reptilia - Dryosauridae
Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki n. gen., n. sp. Virchow 1919
thousands of bones, incl. HMN dyA, dyB; BSPG AS I 834; many uncat. IG specimens (21 measurements)
Reptilia
Sauropoda indet. (Marsh 1878)
Heinrich 1998
sauropod teeth; 2 uncat. IG materials
Titanosauriformes indet. Salgado et al. 1997
Schwarz et al. 2023 1 specimen
Ig 497-498, cervical vertebra
Reptilia - Brachiosauridae
Brachiosaurus brancai Janensch 1914
Janensch 1935 4 specimens
recombined as Giraffatitan brancai
Jg 415; Ig uncat. materials
Reptilia
Pterosauria indet. (Kaup 1834)
Heinrich 1998
teeth of 'pterosaurs'
Reptilia - Tendaguripteridae
Tendaguripterus recki n. gen., n. sp. Unwin and Heinrich 1999
Unwin and Heinrich 1999 1 specimen
MB.R.1290 (holotype), mandibular symphysis
Reptilia
Crocodylomorpha indet. (Hay 1930)
Heinrich 1998
teeth of 'crocodiles'
    = cf. Bernissartia sp. Dollo 1883
Heinrich 2001
Reptilia - Paramacellodidae
Squamata indet. Oppel 1811
Heinrich 1998
teeth of 'lizards'
    = Paramacellodidae indet. Estes 1983
Broschinski 1999
Jg 824 (anterior part of dentary)
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Haramyidae
Haramyidae indet.
Heinrich 2001 1 specimen
MB.Ma.50070 (crown)
Staffia aenigmatica n. gen., n. sp. Heinrich 1999
Heinrich 1999 2 specimens
MB.Ma.48080; 50069 (lower cheek tooth crown)
Mammalia - Amphilestidae
Tendagurodon janenschi n. gen., n. sp. Heinrich 1998
Heinrich 1998 1 specimen
MB.Ma.46911 (a lower, right cheek tooth)
Mammalia - Peramura - Peramuridae
Tendagurutherium dietrichi n. gen., n. sp. Heinrich 1998
Heinrich 1998 1 specimen
MB.Ma.46910 (fragment of a right dentary with the last molar)
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/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:152.20000 - 149.20000 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. Butler, R. Benson 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]
12780ETE 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]
12800ETE 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]
24821ETE 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]
12562ETE 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]
12607ETE 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]
12612ETE 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]
12560ETE 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]
12602ETE 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]
12582ETE 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]
12580ETE 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]
13386ETE 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]