Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.2° E: paleocoordinates 30.0° S, 17.0° 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: estuary or bay; gray, green, red, sandy marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: P. M. Sander. 1999. Life history of Tendaguru sauropods as inferred from long bone histology. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaften Reihe 2:103-112 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97541: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 06.08.2010