Tendaguru 13 - Lipogiro, Western margin (Cretaceous to of Tanzania)

Where: Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 31.4° S, 18.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Trigonia Schwarzi Bed Member, Valanginian to Valanginian (139.8 - 129.4 Ma)

• Schwarzi Bed (and Smeei Bed ?)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• possibly siliciclastic, based on nearby localities

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: W. O. Dietrich. 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie der Tendaguruschichten. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII/2, Teil 2 1-86 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79092: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp.
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea gabrielis