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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Kentrosaurus aethiopicus Hennig 1915 ornithischian | |
"Brachiosaurus brancai" = Giraffatitan brancai2
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Actinopteri | |
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