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