Tendaguru quarry IV (Jurassic of Tanzania)

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: "channel"; gray, green, red, sandy marl and fine-grained sandstone

• "greenish-grey and reddish sandy marls"; "horizontal laminated, fine-grained sandstone"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by W. Janensch, Godfrey in 1909

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48346: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.03.2005, edited by Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Kentrosaurus aethiopicus Hennig 1915 ornithischian
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.2 Kaup 1834 pterosaur
MB.R.2843 (holotype), wing phalanx
Gnathostomata
  -
Actinopterygii indet.1 ray-finned fish
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