Tendaguru quarry XX (Jurassic to of Tanzania)

Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.7° 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; intraclastic, gray, green, red, sandy siltstone

• "tidal flat"
• "greenish-grey and reddish sandy marls"; "intraclast-bearing sandy siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• includes 1912 collection by H. Reck (often listed under EH but same quarry)

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 48354: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.03.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Kentrosaurus aethiopicus Hennig 1915 ornithischian
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
"Brachiosaurus brancai" = Giraffatitan brancai2
"Brachiosaurus brancai" = Giraffatitan brancai2 Janensch 1914 brachiosaurid
XX 2, 5, 7, 12-17, 19
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
Lepidotes sp.1 Agassiz 1832 gar
scales, teeth