ammonites
Nambango site, Tendaguru (Jurassic of Tanzania)

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