Species: robusta (FRAAS, 1908) WILD, 1991
Etymology: Latin, robustus, "robust or strong."
= Gigantosaurus robustus FRAAS, 1908
= Tornieria robusta (FRAAS, 1909) STERNFIELD, 1911
= Tornieria gigantea HUENE, 1956 (sic)

Holotype: SMNS 12144

Locality: Tendaguru site B (Quarry B), approimately 900 m southeast of Tendaguru Hill, Lindi District, southeasternTendaguru, Tanzania, East Africa.

Horizon: Upper Dinosaur (Saurian bed) Member, Tendaguru Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Sacrum, ilium, pubis, and ischium, distal end of right femur, tibia, fibula, and manus.

Topotypes:

MB.R.2090.1: Distal half of left tibia.

MB.R.2090.2 (Bed 8): Left pubis.

MB.R.2090.4: Right ischium.

Referred material:

MB.R.2095.1-13 (P2-P12, P32): 2 left tibiae, 2 left fibulae, 2 left astragali, 1 left humerus, 2 left ulnae, 2 left radii, a left manual ungual (phalange 2 of digit 1).

MB.R.2096.1(IX il): Right femur.

MB.R.2096.2 (IX v3): Left radius.

 

MANNION, UPCHRUCH, SCHWARZ & WINGS, 2019

Locality: Quarry P, Nterego, approximately 1.2 km northeast of Tendaguru Hill, LLindi District, southeasternTendaguru, Tanzania, East Africa.

Horizon: Upper Dinosaur (Saurian bed) Member, Tendaguru Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

MB.R.2095,2245, 2707: All forelimb and hindlimb.

 

Locality: Obolello, about 15 km SW of Tendaguru Hill, Tendaguru, Tanzania, East Africa.

Horizon: Middle Tendaguru Formation, Upper Saurian bed.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

MB.R.2094 (Oa 12): Procoelous caudal vertebra.

 

JANENSCH, 1961

Locality: Tendaguru, Tanzania, East Africa.

Horizon: Upper Tendaguru Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Jurassic.

Material:

P8: Humerus.

P 12: Ulna.

P 11: Radius.

IX v 3: Radius.

B 8: Pubis.

G77: Ischium.

B 13: Ischium.

IX 1i: Femur.

P 5: Tibia.

P 4: Astragalus.