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I could not find anywhere on wikipedia a proper description of the various excavations at Tendaguru, not even the pre-WWI German and pre-WWII British effort, much less the various shorter research visits. Ideally, it should be given here. Research on it is not difficult: Gerhard Maier, African Dinosaurs Uearthed: The Tendaguru Expeditions (Indiana University Press, 2003) is entirely sufficient for a general overview, and cites all the literature one might otherwise need. If anyone is willing to describe the British efforts, I'll detail the German ones. Please? HMallison ( talk) 21:42, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
I am not really sure whether it is a smart idea to keep listing Giraffatitan as Brachiosaurus-later-changed-over-to-Giraffatitan. The animal is not Brachiosaurus, but Giraffatitan, so that name should come first. Plus the info that it used to be called Brachiosaurus, obviously. Why not keep the old text, but add the (awesome!) color scheme? HMallison ( talk) 13:44, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
I just removed edits by user:Troodon58 where the Tendaguru Formation ecosystem was compared genus-by-genus to today's savannah environments. I'd like to give a short explanation here why such speculation is unfounded and likely to be 99% false.
First of all, we know quite a lot about the living genera, but we do not even have anything but a half-complete list fo what actually lived millions of years ago. Secondly, the genera may contain a bunch of species, with quite different habits and habitats, that do not show in the bones. Thirdly, a skeleton tells preciously little about the lifestyle of an animal. Yes, we have SOME pointers - but those can at most be used to exclude extant animals (i.e., Giraffatitan =/ Sciurus [yes, absurd example]), but barely to make positive comparisons. Finally, the terminology of the entry was highly inexact. What is "colse to the ground" - 1m? 2m? 3m? Kentrosaurus was easily capable of using a tripodal pose, reaching up to app. 3 m..... that's far from what "low level browsers" today can reach. OOPS! HMallison ( talk) 20:28, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
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Coordinates cannot be correct, too far south and west. At Henning (1912), Am Tendaguru, p.15 ( https://archive.org/download/amtendaguruleben00henn/amtendaguruleben00henn.pdf) we can see a map the gives a location (in accordance withj the text) which places the Tendaguru Hill (original find site) at the southern bank of Mbemkuru River (in the old map: Mbenkuru), roughly 33/35 km north of Lindi and from there about 55 km west. Cannot identify any mountain on a map or satellite image, but it should be somewhere around -9.66, 39.23. Kipala ( talk) 18:48, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
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Replacement headings for "Presence" column
! Location
! Stratigraphic position
! Material
Replacement headings for "Taxa" column
The background colors of the cells are a means to communicate the relevant organism's taxonomic status.
Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Red for reclassified and preoccupied
|style="background:#fbdddb;" |
Purple for taxa falsely reported as present:
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Dark grey for discredited taxa:
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Peach for
Ichnotaxa:
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Light blue for
Ootaxa:
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Light green for
Morphotaxa:
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I could not find anywhere on wikipedia a proper description of the various excavations at Tendaguru, not even the pre-WWI German and pre-WWII British effort, much less the various shorter research visits. Ideally, it should be given here. Research on it is not difficult: Gerhard Maier, African Dinosaurs Uearthed: The Tendaguru Expeditions (Indiana University Press, 2003) is entirely sufficient for a general overview, and cites all the literature one might otherwise need. If anyone is willing to describe the British efforts, I'll detail the German ones. Please? HMallison ( talk) 21:42, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
I am not really sure whether it is a smart idea to keep listing Giraffatitan as Brachiosaurus-later-changed-over-to-Giraffatitan. The animal is not Brachiosaurus, but Giraffatitan, so that name should come first. Plus the info that it used to be called Brachiosaurus, obviously. Why not keep the old text, but add the (awesome!) color scheme? HMallison ( talk) 13:44, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
I just removed edits by user:Troodon58 where the Tendaguru Formation ecosystem was compared genus-by-genus to today's savannah environments. I'd like to give a short explanation here why such speculation is unfounded and likely to be 99% false.
First of all, we know quite a lot about the living genera, but we do not even have anything but a half-complete list fo what actually lived millions of years ago. Secondly, the genera may contain a bunch of species, with quite different habits and habitats, that do not show in the bones. Thirdly, a skeleton tells preciously little about the lifestyle of an animal. Yes, we have SOME pointers - but those can at most be used to exclude extant animals (i.e., Giraffatitan =/ Sciurus [yes, absurd example]), but barely to make positive comparisons. Finally, the terminology of the entry was highly inexact. What is "colse to the ground" - 1m? 2m? 3m? Kentrosaurus was easily capable of using a tripodal pose, reaching up to app. 3 m..... that's far from what "low level browsers" today can reach. OOPS! HMallison ( talk) 20:28, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
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Coordinates cannot be correct, too far south and west. At Henning (1912), Am Tendaguru, p.15 ( https://archive.org/download/amtendaguruleben00henn/amtendaguruleben00henn.pdf) we can see a map the gives a location (in accordance withj the text) which places the Tendaguru Hill (original find site) at the southern bank of Mbemkuru River (in the old map: Mbenkuru), roughly 33/35 km north of Lindi and from there about 55 km west. Cannot identify any mountain on a map or satellite image, but it should be somewhere around -9.66, 39.23. Kipala ( talk) 18:48, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
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