Tendaguru Formation, the Glossary
The Tendaguru Formation, or Tendaguru Beds are a highly fossiliferous formation and Lagerstätte located in the Lindi Region of southeastern Tanzania.[1]
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233 relations: Abelisauridae, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Africa, Albian, Alcobaça Formation, Algae, Allosauridae, Amphibian, Amphilestidae, Aptian, Araucariaceae, Archaeopterodactyloidea, Archean, Argentina, Argiles d'Octeville, Australodocus, Australosphenida, Azhdarchidae, Éric Buffetaut, Bajada Colorada Formation, Barosaurus, Barremian, Basement (geology), Bernissartia, Berriasian, Brachiosauridae, Brachiosaurus, Brackish water, Brancatherulum, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, British Museum, Cañadón Asfalto Basin, Cañadón Calcáreo Formation, Callovian, Carcharodontosauridae, Ceratosauria, Ceratosaurus, Charophyta, Chatham House, Cheirolepidiaceae, Chile, China, Cladotheria, Clay, Clay mineral, Coastal plain, Concretion, Conglomerate (geology), Conifer, Crocodyliformes, ... Expand index (183 more) »
- Jurassic System of Africa
- Lower Cretaceous Series of Africa
- Paleontology in Tanzania
- Rufiji-Ruvuma languages
- Tidal deposits
Abelisauridae
Abelisauridae (meaning "Abel's lizards") is a family (or clade) of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaurs.
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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal of paleontology and paleobiology.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
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Albian
The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.
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Alcobaça Formation
The Alcobaça Formation, previously known as the Guimarota Formation and also known as the Consolação Unit, is a geological formation in Portugal. Tendaguru Formation and Alcobaça Formation are Lagoonal deposits.
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Algae
Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.
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Allosauridae
Allosauridae is a family of medium to large bipedal, carnivorous allosauroid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic.
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Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.
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Amphilestidae
Amphilestidae is a family of Mesozoic mammals, generally regarded as eutriconodonts.
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Aptian
The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column.
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Araucariaceae
Araucariaceae – also known as Araucarians – is a family of coniferous trees, with three living genera, Araucaria, Agathis, and Wollemia.
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Archaeopterodactyloidea
Archaeopterodactyloidea (meaning "ancient Pterodactyloidea") is an extinct clade of pterodactyloid pterosaurs that lived from the middle Late Jurassic to the latest Early Cretaceous periods (Kimmeridgian to Albian stages) of Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
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Archean
The Archean Eon (also spelled Archaean or Archæan), in older sources sometimes called the Archaeozoic, is the second of the four geologic eons of Earth's history, preceded by the Hadean Eon and followed by the Proterozoic.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
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Argiles d'Octeville
The Argiles d'Octeville (meaning Octeville Clay) is a geological formation in Normandy, France.
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Australodocus
Australodocus (meaning "southern beam" from the Latin australis "southern" and the Greek dokos/δοκоς "beam") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic period, around 150 million years ago, in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania.
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Australosphenida
The Australosphenida are a clade of mammals, containing mammals with tribosphenic molars, known from the Jurassic to Mid-Cretaceous of Gondwana.
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Azhdarchidae
Azhdarchidae (from the Persian word azhdar, اژدر, a dragon-like creature in Persian mythology) is a family of pterosaurs known primarily from the Late Cretaceous Period, though an isolated vertebra apparently from an azhdarchid is known from the Early Cretaceous as well (late Berriasian age, about 140 million years ago).
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Éric Buffetaut
Éric Buffetaut (born 19 November 1950) is a French paleontologist, author and researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique since 1976 where he is a Doctor of Science and Director of Research.
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Bajada Colorada Formation
The Bajada Colorada Formation is a geologic formation of the southern Neuquén Province in the Neuquén Basin of northern Patagonia, Argentina. Tendaguru Formation and Bajada Colorada Formation are Conglomerate formations and Sandstone formations.
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Barosaurus
Barosaurus was a giant, long-tailed, long-necked, plant-eating sauropod dinosaur closely related to the more familiar Diplodocus.
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Barremian
The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale (or a chronostratigraphic stage) between 125.77 Ma (million years ago) and 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma (Historically, this stage was placed at 129.4 million to approximately 125 million years ago) It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous Epoch (or Lower Cretaceous Series).
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Basement (geology)
In geology, basement and crystalline basement are crystalline rocks lying above the mantle and beneath all other rocks and sediments.
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Bernissartia
Bernissartia ('of Bernissart') is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodyliform that lived in the Early Cretaceous, around 130 million years ago.
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Berriasian
In the geological timescale, the Berriasian is an age/stage of the Early/Lower Cretaceous.
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Brachiosauridae
The Brachiosauridae ("arm lizards", from Greek brachion (βραχίων).
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Brachiosaurus
Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic, about 154to 150million years ago.
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Brackish water
Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater.
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Brancatherulum
Brancatherulum is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) mammal from the Tendaguru Formation of Lindi Region of Tanzania.
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Brazilian Academy of Sciences
The Brazilian Academy of Sciences (Academia Brasileira de Ciências or ABC) is the national academy of Brazil.
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British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
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Cañadón Asfalto Basin
The Cañadón Asfalto Basin (Cuenca de Cañadón Asfalto) is an irregularly shaped sedimentary basin located in north-central Patagonia, Argentina.
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Cañadón Calcáreo Formation
The Cañadón Calcáreo Formation is an Oxfordian to Kimmeridgian-aged geologic formation, from the Cañadón Asfalto Basin in Chubut Province, Argentina, a rift basin that started forming since the earliest Jurassic. Tendaguru Formation and Cañadón Calcáreo Formation are Lacustrine deposits and Sandstone formations.
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Callovian
In the geologic timescale, the Callovian is an age and stage in the Middle Jurassic, lasting between 165.3 ± 1.1 Ma (million years ago) and 161.5 ± 1.0 Ma.
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Carcharodontosauridae
Carcharodontosauridae (carcharodontosaurids; from the Greek καρχαροδοντόσαυρος, carcharodontósauros: "shark-toothed lizards") is a group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs.
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Ceratosauria
Ceratosaurs are members of the clade Ceratosauria, a group of dinosaurs defined as all theropods sharing a more recent common ancestor with Ceratosaurus than with birds.
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Ceratosaurus
Ceratosaurus (from Greek κέρας/κέρατος, keras/keratos meaning "horn" and σαῦρος sauros meaning "lizard") was a carnivorous theropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian ages).
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Charophyta
Charophyta is a group of freshwater green algae, called charophytes, sometimes treated as a division, yet also as a superdivision or an unranked clade.
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Chatham House
The Royal Institute of International Affairs, commonly known as Chatham House, is a British think tank based in London, England.
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Cheirolepidiaceae
Cheirolepidiaceae (also spelled Cheirolepidaceae) is an extinct family of conifers.
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Cladotheria
Cladotheria is a clade (sometimes ranked as a legion) of mammals.
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Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
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Clay mineral
Clay minerals are hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates (e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4), sometimes with variable amounts of iron, magnesium, alkali metals, alkaline earths, and other cations found on or near some planetary surfaces.
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Coastal plain
A coastal plain (also coastal plains, coastal lowland, coastal lowlands) is flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast.
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Concretion
A concretion is a hard, compact mass formed by the precipitation of mineral cement within the spaces between particles, and is found in sedimentary rock or soil.
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Conglomerate (geology)
Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts.
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Conifer
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.
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Crocodyliformes
Crocodyliformes is a clade of crurotarsan archosaurs, the group often traditionally referred to as "crocodilians".
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Cupressaceae
Cupressaceae is a conifer family, the cypress, with worldwide distribution.
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Cycas
Cycas is a genus of cycad, and the only genus in the family Cycadaceae with all other genera of cycad being divided between the Stangeriaceae and Zamiaceae families.
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Depositional environment
In geology, depositional environment or sedimentary environment describes the combination of physical, chemical, and biological processes associated with the deposition of a particular type of sediment and, therefore, the rock types that will be formed after lithification, if the sediment is preserved in the rock record.
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Dicraeosauridae
Dicraeosauridae is a family of diplodocoid sauropods who are the sister group to Diplodocidae.
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Dicraeosaurus
Dicraeosaurus (Gr. δικραιος, dikraios "bifurcated, double-headed" + Gr. σαυρος, sauros "lizard") is a genus of diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania during the late Jurassic period.
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Dinoflagellate
The dinoflagellates are a monophyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes constituting the phylum Dinoflagellata and are usually considered protists.
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Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
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Dinosaurs of Tendaguru
Dinosaurs of Tendaguru (original title: Dinosaria wa Tendaguru) is a Tanzanian booklet for young readers on natural history, focussing on the discovery and subsequent excavations of dinosaur fossils at Tendaguru hill in Lindi Region of South Eastern Tanzania.
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Diplodocidae
Diplodocids, or members of the family Diplodocidae ("double beams"), are a group of sauropod dinosaurs.
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Diplodocinae
Diplodocinae is an extinct subfamily of diplodocid sauropods that existed from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of North America, Europe, Africa and South America, about 161.2 to 136.4 million years ago.
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Diplodocoidea
Diplodocoidea is a superfamily of sauropod dinosaurs, which included some of the longest animals of all time, including slender giants like Supersaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, and Amphicoelias.
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Diplodocus
Diplodocus was a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaurs, whose fossils were first discovered in 1877 by S. W. Williston.
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Dryolestida
Dryolestida is an extinct order of mammals, known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous.
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Dryosauridae
Dryosauridae was a family of primitive iguanodonts, first proposed by Milner & Norman in 1984.
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Dsungaripteroidea
Dsungaripteroidea is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.
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Dysalotosaurus
Dysalotosaurus ("uncatchable lizard") is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur.
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Early Cretaceous
The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.
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Early Jurassic
The Early Jurassic Epoch (in chronostratigraphy corresponding to the Lower Jurassic Series) is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic Period.
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EAVP
The European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP) is a society for the advancement of vertebrate palaeontology in Europe.
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Eberhard Fraas
Eberhard Fraas (26 June 1862 – 6 March 1915) was a German scientist, geologist and paleontologist.
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Edwin Hennig
Edwin Hennig (27 April 1882 – 12 November 1977) was a German paleontologist.
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Elaphrosaurus
Elaphrosaurus is a genus of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 154 to 150 million years ago during the Late Jurassic Period in what is now Tanzania in Africa.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Eusauropoda
Eusauropoda (meaning "True Lizard Foot") is a derived clade of sauropod dinosaurs.
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Eustatic sea level
The eustatic sea level is the distance from the center of the Earth to the sea surface.
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Facies
In geology, a facies (same pronunciation and spelling in the plural) is a body of rock with distinctive characteristics.
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Fern
The ferns (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) are a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.
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Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
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Flora
Flora (floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga.
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Fluvial sediment processes
In geography and geology, fluvial sediment processes or fluvial sediment transport are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by sediments.
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Foraminifera
Foraminifera (Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of Rhizarian protists characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm for catching food and other uses; and commonly an external shell (called a "test") of diverse forms and materials.
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Fossil Record
Fossil Record is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering palaeontology.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
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Geological formation
A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).
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German East Africa
German East Africa (GEA; Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique.
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Germans
Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Gigantosaurus
Gigantosaurus is a dubious genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation of England.
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Ginkgoaceae
The Ginkgoaceae is a family of gymnosperms which appeared during the Mesozoic Era, of which the only extant representative is Ginkgo biloba, which is for this reason sometimes regarded as a living fossil.
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Giraffatitan
Giraffatitan (name meaning "titanic giraffe") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian stages) in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania.
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Gneiss
Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock.
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Gondwana
Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.
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Gondwanatheria
Gondwanatheria is an extinct group of mammaliaforms that lived in parts of Gondwana, including Madagascar, India, South America, Africa, and Antarctica during the Upper Cretaceous through the Paleogene (and possibly much earlier, if Allostaffia is a member of this group).
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Gregory S. Paul
Gregory Scott Paul (born December 24, 1954) is an American freelance researcher, author and illustrator who works in paleontology.
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Gymnosperm
The gymnosperms are a group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes, forming the clade Gymnospermae.
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Hans Reck
Hans Gottfried Reck (24 January 1886 – 4 August 1937) was a German volcanologist and paleontologist.
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Haramiyida
Haramiyida is a possibly paraphyletic order of mammaliaform cynodonts or mammals of controversial taxonomic affinites.
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Hauterivian
The Hauterivian is, in the geologic timescale, an age in the Early Cretaceous Epoch or a stage in the Lower Cretaceous Series.
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Hybodus
Hybodus (from ύβος, 'crooked' and ὀδούς 'tooth') is an extinct genus of hybodont that lived from the Middle Triassic to the Late Cretaceous periods.
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Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Indiana University
Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana.
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Invertebrate
Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.
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Ischium
The ischium (ischia) forms the lower and back region of the hip bone (os coxae).
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Janenschia
Janenschia (named after Werner Janensch) is a large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Lindi Region, Tanzania around 155 million years ago.
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Journal of Mammalian Evolution
The Journal of Mammalian Evolution is the official journal of the Society for the Study of Mammalian Evolution.
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Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1980 by Jiri Zidek (University of Oklahoma).
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Kalaza Formation
The Kalaza Formation is a geological formation in Xinjiang, China whose strata date back to the Late Jurassic.
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Karoo Supergroup
The Karoo Supergroup is the most widespread stratigraphic unit in Africa south of the Kalahari Desert.
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Kentrosaurus
Kentrosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic in Lindi Region of Tanzania.
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Kimmeridge Clay
The Kimmeridge Clay is a sedimentary deposit of fossiliferous marine clay which is of Late Jurassic to lowermost Cretaceous age and occurs in southern and eastern England and in the North Sea. Tendaguru Formation and Kimmeridge Clay are shale formations and Shallow marine deposits.
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Kimmeridgian
In the geologic timescale, the Kimmeridgian is an age in the Late Jurassic Epoch and a stage in the Upper Jurassic Series.
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Kirkwood Formation
The Kirkwood Formation is a geological formation found in the Eastern and Western Cape provinces in South Africa. Tendaguru Formation and Kirkwood Formation are lower Cretaceous Series of Africa, Sandstone formations, shale formations and Siltstone formations.
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Ksar Metlili Formation
The Ksar Metlili Formation is a geological formation in eastern High Atlas of Morocco, it is late Tithonian to Berriasian in age. Tendaguru Formation and Ksar Metlili Formation are Jurassic System of Africa and Sandstone formations.
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Lagerstätte
A Fossil-Lagerstätte (from Lager 'storage, lair' Stätte 'place'; plural Lagerstätten) is a sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation—sometimes including preserved soft tissues.
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Lagoon
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses.
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Lake
A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.
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Late Jurassic
The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.
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Laurasia
Laurasia was the more northern of two large landmasses that formed part of the Pangaea supercontinent from around (Mya), the other being Gondwana.
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Lepidotes
Lepidotes (from λεπιδωτός, 'covered with scales') (previously known as Lepidotus) is an extinct genus of Mesozoic ray-finned fish.
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Les Sables de Glos Formation
The Les Sables de Glos Formation is a sandy Jurassic-age geologic formation in France.
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Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
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Lindi Region
Lindi Region (Mkoa wa Lindi in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions.
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Liostrea
Liostrea is a genus of extinct oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Gryphaeidae.
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List of African dinosaurs
This is a list of non-avian dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Africa.
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List of E. Schweizerbart serials
This is a list of academic journals, monographic series, and other serials published by E. Schweizerbart.
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania. Tendaguru Formation and list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania are paleontology in Tanzania.
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List of informally named dinosaurs
This list of informally named dinosaurs is a listing of dinosaurs (excluding Aves; birds and their extinct relatives) that have never been given formally published scientific names.
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List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur body fossils
This is a list of stratigraphic units from which dinosaur body fossils have been recovered.
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Lithophaga
Lithophaga, the date mussels, are a genus of medium-sized marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae.
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Lithostratigraphy
Lithostratigraphy is a sub-discipline of stratigraphy, the geological science associated with the study of strata or rock layers.
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Lonchidion
Lonchidion is a genus of extinct hybodont in the family Lonchidiidae.
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Lourinhã Formation
The Lourinhã Formation is a fossil rich geological formation in western Portugal, named for the municipality of Lourinhã. Tendaguru Formation and Lourinhã Formation are Conglomerate formations and Sandstone formations.
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Madagascar
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.
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Magallanes Basin
The Magallanes Basin or Austral Basin is a major sedimentary basin in southern Patagonia.
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Mamenchisauridae
Mamenchisauridae is a family of sauropod dinosaurs belonging to Eusauropoda known from the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Asia and Africa.
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Mammaliaformes
Mammaliaformes ("mammalian forms") is a clade that contains the crown group mammals and their closest extinct relatives; the group radiated from earlier probainognathian cynodonts.
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Manda Formation
The Manda Formation (also known as the Manda Beds) is a Middle Triassic (Anisian?) or possibly Late Triassic (Carnian?) geologic formation in Tanzania. Tendaguru Formation and Manda Formation are Deltaic deposits, Lacustrine deposits, paleontology in Tanzania, Sandstone formations and Siltstone formations.
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Marnes de Bleville
The Marnes de Bleville is a geological formation in France.
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Megalosauroidea
Megalosauroidea (meaning 'great/big lizard forms') is a superfamily (or clade) of tetanuran theropod dinosaurs that lived from the Middle Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous period.
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Megalosaurus
Megalosaurus (meaning "great lizard", from Greek μέγας, megas, meaning 'big', 'tall' or 'great' and σαῦρος, sauros, meaning 'lizard') is an extinct genus of large carnivorous theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic Epoch (Bathonian stage, 166 million years ago) of southern England.
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Mesozoic
The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.
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Middle Jurassic
The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period.
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Morrison Formation
The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Upper Jurassic sedimentary rock found in the western United States which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America. Tendaguru Formation and Morrison Formation are Shallow marine deposits and Siltstone formations.
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Mudflat
Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats or, in Ireland, slob or slobs, are coastal wetlands that form in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers.
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Mugher Mudstone
The Mugher Mudstone is a geologic formation located in Ethiopia. Tendaguru Formation and Mugher Mudstone are Jurassic System of Africa.
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Mwera people
The Mwera people are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic group.
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Natural History Museum, Berlin
The Natural History Museum (Museum für Naturkunde) is a natural history museum located in Berlin, Germany.
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Neoproterozoic
The Neoproterozoic Era is the unit of geologic time from 1 billion to 538.8 million years ago.
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Neosauropoda
Neosauropoda is a clade within Dinosauria, coined in 1986 by Argentine paleontologist José Bonaparte and currently described as Saltasaurus loricatus, Diplodocus longus, and all animals directly descended from their most recent common ancestor.
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Noasauridae
Noasauridae is an extinct family of theropod dinosaurs belonging to the group Ceratosauria.
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Oceanic trench
Oceanic trenches are prominent, long, narrow topographic depressions of the ocean floor.
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Oolite
Oolite or oölite is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers.
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Ornithischia
Ornithischia is an extinct clade of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by a pelvic structure superficially similar to that of birds.
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Ostafrikasaurus
Ostafrikasaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period of what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania.
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Osteoderm
Osteoderms are bony deposits forming scales, plates, or other structures based in the dermis.
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Otto von Bismarck
Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898; born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck) was a Prussian statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany.
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Outcrop
An outcrop or rocky outcrop is a visible exposure of bedrock or ancient superficial deposits on the surface of the Earth and other terrestrial planets.
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Oxford Clay
The Oxford Clay (or Oxford Clay Formation) is a Jurassic marine sedimentary rock formation underlying much of southeast England, from as far west as Dorset and as far north as Yorkshire. Tendaguru Formation and Oxford Clay are shale formations and Shallow marine deposits.
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Oxfordian (stage)
The Oxfordian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the earliest age of the Late Jurassic Epoch, or the lowest stage of the Upper Jurassic Series.
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Palaeogeography
Palaeogeography (or paleogeography) is the study of historical geography, generally physical landscapes.
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Palaeontological Association
The Palaeontological Association (PalAss for short) is a charitable organisation based in the UK founded in 1957 for the promotion of the study of palaeontology and its allied sciences.
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Palaeontology (journal)
Palaeontology is one of the two scientific journals of the Palaeontological Association (the other being Papers in Palaeontology).
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Paleontology
Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
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Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
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PalZ
PalZ (formerly Paläontologische Zeitschrift) is an international, peer-reviewed periodical focused on palaeontology and published by the palaeontological society of Germany (Paläontologische Gesellschaft).
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Paramacellodidae
Paramacellodidae is an extinct family of lizards that first appeared in the Middle Jurassic around 170 million years ago (Ma) and became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous around 66 Ma.
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Patagonia
Patagonia is a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile.
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Peramuridae
The family Peramuridae is a family of mammals that lived in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.
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Petroleum reservoir
A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations.
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PLOS One
PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.
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Pollen
Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
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Protocardia
Protocardia is an extinct genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the subfamily Protocardiinae of the family Cardiidae, the cockles.
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Provenance
Provenance is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object.
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Pseudomelania
†Pseudomelania is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelaniidae.
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Pterodactyloidea
Pterodactyloidea (derived from the Greek words πτερόν (pterón, for usual ptéryx) "wing", and δάκτυλος (dáktylos) "finger") is one of the two traditional suborders of pterosaurs ("wing lizards"), and contains the most derived members of this group of flying reptiles.
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Pterodactylus
Pterodactylus is a genus of extinct pterosaurs.
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Pterosaur
Pterosaurs (from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria.
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Pubis (bone)
In vertebrates, the pubis or pubic bone (os pubis) forms the lower and anterior part of each side of the hip bone.
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Report on the restitution of African cultural heritage
The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage.
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Restitution and unjust enrichment
Restitution and unjust enrichment is the field of law relating to gains-based recovery.
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Rhamphorhynchoidea
The Rhamphorhynchoidea forms one of the two suborders of pterosaurs and represents an evolutionary grade of primitive members of flying reptiles.
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Rhamphorhynchus
Rhamphorhynchus (from Ancient Greek rhamphos meaning "beak" and rhynchus meaning "snout") is a genus of long-tailed pterosaurs in the Jurassic period.
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Rift
In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.
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River delta
A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by the deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.
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Salientia
The Salientia (Latin salire, salio meaning "to jump") are a total group of amphibians that includes the order Anura, the frogs and toads, and various extinct proto-frogs that are more closely related to the frogs than they are to the Urodela, the salamanders and newts.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.
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Sauropoda
Sauropoda, whose members are known as sauropods (from sauro- + -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs.
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Shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.
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Shaximiao Formation
The Shaximiao Formation is a Middle to Late Jurassic aged geological formation in Sichuan, China, most notable for the wealth of dinosaurs fossils that have been excavated from its strata. Tendaguru Formation and Shaximiao Formation are Sandstone formations.
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Shishugou Formation
The Shishugou Formation is a geological formation in Xinjiang, China. Tendaguru Formation and Shishugou Formation are Lacustrine deposits and Sandstone formations.
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Shoal
In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or above it, which poses a danger to navigation.
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Siltstone
Siltstone, also known as aleurolite, is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of silt.
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Somphospondyli
Somphospondyli is an extinct clade of titanosauriform sauropods that lived from the Late Jurassic until the end of the Late Cretaceous, comprising all titanosauriforms more closely related to Titanosauria proper than Brachiosauridae.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
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Sphenodus
Sphenodus is an extinct genus of shark.
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Spore
In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual (in fungi) or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions.
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Squamata
Squamata (Latin squamatus, 'scaly, having scales') is the largest order of reptiles, comprising lizards and snakes.
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Stegosauria
Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.
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Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus is a genus of herbivorous, four-legged, armored dinosaur from the Late Jurassic, characterized by the distinctive kite-shaped upright plates along their backs and spikes on their tails.
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Stratum
In geology and related fields, a stratum (strata) is a layer of rock or sediment characterized by certain lithologic properties or attributes that distinguish it from adjacent layers from which it is separated by visible surfaces known as either bedding surfaces or bedding planes.
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Stuttgart
Stuttgart (Swabian: italics) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
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Sundays River Formation
The Sundays River Formation is a geological formation found in the Eastern and Western Cape provinces in South Africa. Tendaguru Formation and Sundays River Formation are Sandstone formations, shale formations, Shallow marine deposits and Siltstone formations.
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Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
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Taxaceae
Taxaceae, commonly called the yew family, is a coniferous family which includes six extant and two extinct genera, and about 30 species of plants, or in older interpretations three genera and 7 to 12 species.
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Taxodiaceae
Taxodiaceae is a formerly recognized conifer family.
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Tempestite
Tempestites are storm deposits that can be recognized throughout the geologic record.
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Tendaguria
Tendaguria (meaning "the Tendaguru one") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Lindi Region, Tanzania.
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Tendaguripterus
Tendaguripterus was a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian to Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Middle Saurian Beds (Tendaguru Formation) of Tendaguru, Lindi Region, Tanzania.
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Tetanurae
Tetanurae (/ˌtɛtəˈnjuːriː/ or "stiff tails") is a clade that includes most theropod dinosaurs, including megalosauroids, allosauroids, tyrannosauroids, ornithomimosaurs, compsognathids and maniraptorans (including birds).
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Tethys Ocean
The Tethys Ocean (Τηθύς), also called the Tethys Sea or the Neo-Tethys, was a prehistoric ocean during much of the Mesozoic Era and early-mid Cenozoic Era.
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Thamnoseris
Thamnoseris is an extinct genus of stony corals in the family Latomeandridae.
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Theropoda
Theropoda (from ancient Greek whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Theropods are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs. They were ancestrally carnivorous, although a number of theropod groups evolved to become herbivores and omnivores.
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Toqui Formation
The Toqui Formation is a geological formation in the Aysén Region of southern Chile. Tendaguru Formation and Toqui Formation are Conglomerate formations, Deltaic deposits and Sandstone formations.
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Tornieria
Tornieria ("for Tornier") is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic in Lindi Region of Tanzania.
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Torvosaurus
Torvosaurus is a genus of large megalosaurine theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 165 to 148 million years ago during the Callovian to Tithonian ages of the late Middle and Late Jurassic period in what is now Colorado, Portugal, Germany, and possibly England, Spain, Tanzania, and Uruguay.
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Trace fossil
A trace fossil, also known as an ichnofossil (from ἴχνος ikhnos "trace, track"), is a fossil record of biological activity by lifeforms but not the preserved remains of the organism itself.
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Triassic
The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.
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Tsunami
A tsunami (from lit) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.
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Turiasauria
Turiasauria is an unranked clade of basal sauropod dinosaurs known from Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous deposits in Europe, North America, and Africa.
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Type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).
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Unconformity
An unconformity is a buried erosional or non-depositional surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages, indicating that sediment deposition was not continuous.
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Usili Formation
The Usili Formation is a Late Permian geologic formation in Tanzania. Tendaguru Formation and Usili Formation are Conglomerate formations, Lacustrine deposits, paleontology in Tanzania, Sandstone formations and Siltstone formations.
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Valanginian
In the geologic timescale, the Valanginian is an age or stage of the Early or Lower Cretaceous.
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Veterupristisaurus
Veterupristisaurus is an extinct genus of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur known from the Jurassic of Tendaguru, Lindi Region of southeastern Tanzania.
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Villar del Arzobispo Formation
The Villar del Arzobispo Formation is a Late Jurassic to possibly Early Cretaceous geologic formation in eastern Spain. Tendaguru Formation and Villar del Arzobispo Formation are Deltaic deposits, Sandstone formations and shale formations.
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Wamweracaudia
Wamweracaudia is a large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, Africa, 155-145 million years ago.
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Werner Janensch
Werner Ernst Martin Janensch (11 November 1878 – 20 October 1969) was a German paleontologist and geologist.
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Wilhelm von Branca
Carl Wilhelm Franz von Branca Until 1895: Wilhelm Branco; 1895-1907: Wilhelm von Branco (9 September 1844 – 12 March 1928) was a German geologist and paleontologist.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
The Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering zoology published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Linnean Society.
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Zygnemataceae
The Zygnemataceae are a family of filamentous or unicellular, uniseriate (unbranched) green algae.
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See also
Jurassic System of Africa
- Adigrat Sandstone
- Aganane Formation
- Anoual Formation
- Antalo Limestone
- Assaouas Formation
- Azilal Formation
- Batoka Formation
- Bemaraha Formation
- Bushveld Sandstone
- Clarens Formation
- Drakensberg Group
- El Mers Group
- Elliot Formation
- Enon Formation
- Etjo Sandstone
- Forest Sandstone
- Guettioua Formation
- Imi-n-Ifri Formation
- Iouaridène Formation
- Irhazer Shale
- Isalo III Formation
- Kadzi Formation
- Kandreho Formation
- Ksar Metlili Formation
- Mabdi Formation
- Mpandi Formation
- Mugher Mudstone
- Stormberg Group
- Tafraout Group
- Tendaguru Formation
- Tilougguit Formation
- Tiourarén Formation
- Upper Karoo Group
Lower Cretaceous Series of Africa
- Aïn el Guettar Formation
- Amba Aradam Formation
- Chenini Member
- Dinosaur Beds
- Douiret Formation
- Echkar Formation
- Galula Formation
- Gokwe Formation
- Kirkwood Formation
- Koum Formation
- Lupata Group
- Oum ed Diab Member
- Tendaguru Formation
Paleontology in Tanzania
- Boheti bin Amrani
- Galula Formation
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania
- Manda Formation
- Nsungwe Formation
- Tendaguru Formation
- Usili Formation
Rufiji-Ruvuma languages
- Makonde language
- Matengo language
- Matumbi language
- Mpoto language
- Mwera language
- Ndendeule language
- Ndengereko language
- Ndwewe language
- Ngindo language
- Nindi language
- Rufiji–Ruvuma languages
- Tendaguru Formation
- Tonga language (Malawi)
- Yao language
Tidal deposits
- Aguja Formation
- Alajuela Formation
- Bahía Inglesa Formation
- Bahia Group
- Cairn Formation
- Cerro Negro Formation, Argentina
- Coquimbo Formation
- Cuche Formation
- Dos Bocas Formation
- El Gallo Formation
- Ferris Formation
- Guarujá Formation
- Horseshoe Canyon Formation
- Imías Formation
- Ingersoll Shale
- Ituzaingó Formation
- Keyser Formation
- La Colonia Formation
- La Meseta Formation
- Lameta Formation
- Lefipán Formation
- Letná Formation
- Mahantango Formation
- McMurray Formation
- Pisco Formation
- Potrerillos Formation, Mexico
- Quartermaster Formation
- Queenston Formation
- Scotland Beds
- Tablazo Formation, Ecuador
- Tendaguru Formation
- Tumblagooda Sandstone
- Yahatinda Formation
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendaguru_Formation
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