ammonites
Tendaguru quarry IX (Jurassic of Tanzania)

Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.2° E: paleocoordinates 30.0° S, 17.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Dinosaur Member (Tendaguru Formation), Tithonian (150.8 - 145.5 Ma)

• Upper Transitional Sands = base of member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Janensch, M. Keranje, Boheti in 1909

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• total NISP approx. 150

Primary reference: W. Janensch. 1961. Die Gliedmaszen und Gliedmaszengürtel der Sauropoden der Tendaguru-Schichten [The limbs and limb girdles of the sauropods of the Tendaguru Beds]. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII (1) 3(4):177-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47145: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 15.02.2005