Also known as British Expedition, M 20, Kitukituki
Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 16.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Dinosaur Member (Tendaguru Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)
• formerly Middle Saurian Bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; gray, green, red, sandy marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Boheti, Migeod in 1909-1911, 1929
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
• German excavation, revisited by British Expedition in 1929 but not re-excavated
Primary reference: H. Reck. 1911. Bericht über die Ausgrabungen und Ergebnisse der Tendaguru-Expedition [Report on the excavations and results of the Tendaguru Expedition]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1911(8):385-397 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 47147: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.02.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus" = Kentrosaurus aethiopicus1
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"Brachiosaurus brancai n. sp." = Giraffatitan brancai2
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