Tendaguru quarry Om (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; base of stratum

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; gray, green, red, sandy marl

• "greenish-grey and reddish sandy marls"

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: W. Janensch. 1925. Die Coelurosaurier und Theropoden der Tendaguru-Schichten Deutsch-Ostafrikas [The coelurosaurs and theropods of the Tendaguru Formation of German East Africa]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 1(1):1-100 [A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47155: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.02.2005, edited by Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Synechodontiformes - Orthacodontidae
Sphenodus sp.1 Agassiz 1843 elasmobranch
orig ID Orthacodus Hennig 1914
Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
"Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus" = Kentrosaurus aethiopicus4
"Kentrurosaurus aethiopicus" = Kentrosaurus aethiopicus4 Hennig 1915 ornithischian
 Theropoda -
Coelurosauria "indet. d" coelurosaur
teeth
Coelurosauria "indet. e" coelurosaur
teeth
 Theropoda - Spinosauridae
? Spinosauridae indet.2 Stromer 1915 tetanuran theropod
tooth type a
 Theropoda -
Ostafrikasaurus crassiserratus n. gen. n. sp.3 Buffetaut 2013 theropod
MB.R.1084 (holotype) and MB.R.1091, isolated teeth