Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 35.8° E: paleocoordinates 18.5° S, 22.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lubur Sandstone Formation, Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• = "Turkana Grits"
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by J. Harris, D. Russell, A, Karanja & J. Musa in 1985
Collection methods: surface (float),
• includes one ?ornithopod caudal centrum photographed by not collected by Ron Day during the 1985 Amoco Kenya expedition
Primary reference: J. M. Harris and D. A. Russell. 1986. Preliminary notes on the occurrence of dinosaurs in the Turkana Grits of northern Kenya. 1-11 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135809: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Sauropoda indet. sauropod Nos. 10, 14, 16, 20, 22, 30, 36, 42, 44A, 45-47, 52-54, 57, 62, 64-65, 67, 75, 77
cf. Titanosaurus sp. Lydekker 1877 sauropod Nos. 4a, b, 11, 21, 24, 26-28, 32, 34, 44, 48, 60, 68-69, 71, 73, 76
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