Formación Tendaguru

Ubicación de la Formación Tendaguru (Señalada con un punto rojo) en Tanzania.

Los sedimentos de la Formación Tendaguru constituyen una formación geológica del Jurásico superior muy rica en fósiles que se encuentra en Tanzania. El ecosistema de dinosaurios es muy similar al de la Formación Morrison, con la presencia de Ceratosaurus y Dryosaurus en ambas, y otros dinosaurios de similares características.[1]​

Paleontología

Taxones identificados en los fósiles recolectados en la formación:

Véase también

Referencias

  1. ↑ Octávio Mateus (2006). "Late Jurassic dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation (USA), the Lourinhā and Alcobaça formations (Portugal), and the Tendaguru Beds (Tanzania): a comparison", in Foster, J.R., and Lucas, S.G. (eds.): Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (bulletin 36), 223–232. ISSN 1524-4156.

Bibliografía

  • Khalaf-von Jaffa, Norman Ali Bassam Ali Taher (2006). "Ornithomimid Dinosaur Tracks from Beit Zeit, West of Jerusalem, Palestine."] Gazelle: The Palestinian Biological Bulletin, Number 56, August 2006. pp. 1-7.
  • Maier, G. African dinosaurs unearthed : the Tendaguru expeditions. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2003. (Life of the Past Series).
  • Paul, G. S. 1988. The brachiosaur giants of the Morrison Tendaguru with a description of a new subgenus, Giraffatitan, and a comparison of the world's largest dinosaurs. Hunteria 2 (3): 1-14.
  • Remes, K. 2007. A second gondwana diplodocid dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tendaguru beds of Tanzania, East Africa. Palaeontology, 50, 3, 653-667.

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