ammonites
Tendaguru 9 - Mtapaia (Jurassic of Tanzania)

Where: Tanzania (9.6° S, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 17.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Trigonia Smeei Bed Member, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• possibly sandstone, based on nearby localities

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: W. O. Dietrich. 1933. Zur Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie der Tendaguruschichten. Palaeontographica, Supplement VII/2, Teil 2 1-86 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79087: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.02.2008