Mkoa wa Mtwara - Tanzania

The richest deposit of Late Jurassic strata in Africa is the Tendaguru Formation, the best outcrops of which are in Tanzania in East Africa. Werner Janensch and Edwin Hennig of the Natural History Museum of Berlin uncovered about 225,000 kg of bones over a 2 1/2 year set of expeditions.

Tendaguru, is a Upper Jurassic fossilsite located northwest of Lindi, Tanzania and is regarded as the richest deposit of Late Jurassic strata in Africa. The beds consisted of three horizons of terrestrial marls alternating with marine sandstones. The dinosaurian fauna is broadly comparable to that of another classic region, the Morrison Formation of the western United States it is different from the Morrison Fm. in have marine interbeds. Overall the fauna of the Tendaguru is rather similar to the that of the Morrison Formation.

Allosaurus tendagurensis ? - Carnosauria Allosauridae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Australodocus bohetii - Diplodocidae Diplodocinae - Jurassic Late

Barosaurus africanus - Diplodocidae Diplodocinae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Barosaurus gracilis - Diplodocidae Diplodocinae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Barosaurus lentus - Diplodocidae Diplodocinae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian Tithonian (?Cretaceous Early ?Aptian Albian Cenomanian)

Brachiosaurus brancai - (incl. Brachiosaurus fraasi) - Sauropoda Brachiosauridae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian Tithonian

Brachiosaurus fraasi - Sauropoda Brachiosauridae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Ceratosaurus ingens - Ceratosauria Nomina Dubia - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Ceratosaurus roechlingi - Theropoda Incertae Sedis ’Carnosaurs’ Nomina Dubia - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Dicraeosaurus hansemanni - Diplodocidae Dicraeosaurinae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Dicraeosaurus sattleri - Diplodocidae Dicraeosaurinae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Doryphorosaurus - Stegosauria Stegosauridae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Dryosaurus lettowvorbecki - Ornithopoda Dryosauridae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Dysalotosaurus lettow-vorbecki - Ornithopoda Dryosauridae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Elaphrosaurus bambergi - Theropoda Incertae Sedis - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Gigantosaurus africanus - Diplodocidae Diplodocinae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Gigantosaurus robusta - Sauropoda Titanosauria - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Janenschia robusta - Sauropoda Titanosauria - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Kentrosaurus aethiopicus - Stegosauria Stegosauridae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Kentrurosaurus - Stegosauria Stegosauridae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Labrosaurus stechowi - Theropoda Incertae Sedis ’Carnosaurs’  Nomina Dubia - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Megalosaurus ingens (1) - Ceratosauria Nomina Dubia - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Megalosaurus ingens (2) - Theropoda Incertae Sedis ’Carnosaurs’ Nomina Dubia - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Ostafrikasaurus crassiserratus - Spinosauroidae Spinosauridae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Tendaguria tanzaniensis - Sauropoda Tendaguriidae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian

Veterupristisaurus milneri - Carnosauria Carcharodontosauridae - Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian Tithonian
 

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