Tendaguru Jurassic dinosaurs
Dinosaurios del Jurásico de Tendaguru
- Date
- 1906-1913 · confidence high
- Place
- Tendaguru, Lindi Region, Tanzania
- Credited to
- Werner Janensch and Edwin Hennig (Berlin Museum expeditions) and hundreds of local workers
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Discovered in 1906 by a mining engineer, the Tendaguru site yielded between 1909 and 1913 over 250 tonnes of Late Jurassic fossils (c. 150 Ma), including Giraffatitan, for decades the tallest mounted dinosaur in the world.
Up to 900 African workers dug and carried the bones; their contribution remained unnamed in German reports.
What it led to
- the Giraffatitan skeleton in the Berlin Museum
- Jurassic fauna of East Africa compared with the Morrison (USA)
- debate on Gondwana drift and biogeography