Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.8° S, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 30.1° 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)
• formerly Upper Saurian Bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Bornhardt, W. Janensch in 1911
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: J. F. Bonaparte, W.-D. Heinrich, and R. Wild. 2000. Review of Janenschia Wild, with the description of a new sauropod from the Tendaguru beds of Tanzania and a discussion on the systematic value of procoelous caudal vertebrae in the Sauropoda. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 256(1-3):25-76 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 58991: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 03.03.2006