Tin 0a, Tendaguru (Jurassic of Tanzania)

Also known as Tingutinguti

Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.2° E: paleocoordinates 28.6° S, 16.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Dinosaur Member (Tendaguru Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; fine-grained, silty sandstone

• "tidal flat?"
• "ripple cross-bedded, silty, fine-grained sandstone"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by German-Tanzanian Tendaguru Expedition in 2000

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136588: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.11.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
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Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -