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    The Tendaguru Formation, or Tendaguru Beds are a highly fossiliferous formation and Lagerstätte located in the Lindi Region of southeastern Tanzania....
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    Dinosaurs of Tendaguru (original title: Dinosaria wa Tendaguru) is a Tanzanian booklet for young readers on natural history, focussing on the discovery...
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    Giraffatitan (category Tendaguru fauna)
    who was a driving force behind the expedition that discovered it in the Tendaguru Formation. Giraffatitan brancai was originally described by German paleontologist...
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    fact based on Giraffatitan, a genus of brachiosaurid dinosaur from the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania. Giraffatitan was originally described by German...
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    provides educational exhibits related to the gorge and its long history. The Tendaguru Formation northwest of Lindi is considered the richest Late Jurassic strata...
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    Kentrosaurus (category Tendaguru fauna)
    Stegosauridae. Fossils of K. aethiopicus have been found only in the Tendaguru Formation, dated to the late Kimmeridgian and early Tithonian ages, about...
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  • Jurassic is well represented in Africa, mainly thanks to the spectacular Tendaguru Formation in Lindi Region of Tanzania. Veterupristisaurus, Ostafrikasaurus...
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    Veterupristisaurus (category Tendaguru fauna)
    genus of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur known from the Jurassic of Tendaguru, Lindi Region of southeastern Tanzania. Veterupristisaurus is known from...
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    the German Sunda Expedition (1929–31). Expeditions to fossil beds in Tendaguru in former Deutsch Ostafrika (today Tanzania) unearthed rich paleontological...
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    Porters with provisions for the dinosaur excavations at Tendaguru, near Lindi, Tanzania, between 1909 and 1912...
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    and then the chief supervisor and preparator for the 1909–1913 German Tendaguru Expedition. A sauropod dinosaur, Australodocus bohetii, was named after...
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    Examples of this include the Morrison Formation of North America and Tendaguru Beds of Tanzania. Dinosaurs in China show some differences, with specialized...
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    Janenschia (category Tendaguru fauna)
    Janensch) is a large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Lindi Region, Tanzania around 155 million years ago. Janenschia...
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    Tornieria (category Tendaguru fauna)
    history. In 1907, German paleontologist Eberhard Fraas who was working the Tendaguru Beds in German East Africa (presently Tanzania), discovered two sauropod...
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    in 1920 by Janensch based on isolated Ceratosaurus-like teeth from the Tendaguru beds of Tanzania, was listed by Donald F. Glut as a species of Allosaurus...
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    Ostafrikasaurus (category Tendaguru fauna)
    discovered sometime between 1909 and 1912, during an expedition to the Tendaguru Formation by the Natural History Museum of Berlin. Eight teeth were originally...
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    significant contributions stemmed from the expedition undertaken to the Tendaguru Beds in what is now Tanzania. As leader of an expedition (together with...
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    formation is similar in age to the Lourinha Formation in Portugal and the Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania. The Morrison Formation records an environment and...
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    having less symmetric cross sections. Being found in the Morrison and Tendaguru put the family Ceratosauridae in the presence of other large predators...
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    that is now believed to have been Torvosaurus were discovered in the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania and was named "Megalosaurus" ingens by Werner Janensch...
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    formation is similar in age to the Lourinhã Formation in Portugal and the Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania. Apatosaurus was the second most common sauropod...
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    Elaphrosaurus (category Tendaguru fauna)
    bambergi HMN Gr.S. 38–44 was recovered in the Middle Dinosaur Member of the Tendaguru Formation of Lindi Region in Tanzania. The specimen was collected by Werner...
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    earliest Tithonian faunal stage, about 154-150 million years ago) of Tendaguru Formation, southeastern Tanzania. This genus, Veterupristisaurus represents...
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    "Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for...
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  • Brancatherulum (category Tendaguru fauna)
    extinct genus of Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) mammal from the Tendaguru Formation of Lindi Region of Tanzania. It is based on a single toothless...
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    Berlin Museum für Naturkunde uncovered a diverse dinosaur fauna from the Tendaguru Formation in German East Africa, in what is now Tanzania. Although commonly...
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    present in the Late Jurassic on Tacuarembó Formation of Uruguay and the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania. The remains of Afrovenator were discovered in 1993...
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    Tornieria (formerly "Barosaurus" africanus) and Australodocus from the famous Tendaguru Beds of Tanzania in eastern Africa have also been classified as diplodocines...
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    ISBN 978-0-691-19069-3. Paul, G.S. (1988). "The brachiosaur giants of the Morrison and Tendaguru with a description of a new subgenus, Giraffatitan, and a comparison of...
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    similar in age to the Solnhofen Limestone Formation in Germany and the Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania. The fossils known of Saurophaganax (both the possible...
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