ammonites
Tendaguru quarry M 3 (Jurassic of Tanzania)

Also known as British Expedition

Where: Lindi, Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.2° E: paleocoordinates 30.0° S, 17.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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; sandstone

• "sand"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Cutler, F. W. H. Migeod in 1925-1927, 1929; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: F. W. H. Migeod. 1927. British Museum East Africa Expedition. Progress in the year 1926. Natural History Magazine 1(2):34-43 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 121237: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 01.12.2011