The Tendaguru Formation, or Tendaguru Beds, is a highly fossiliferous formation and fossil-rich lagerstatte in the Lindi Region of southeastern Tanzania. It is the oldest sedimentary unit of the Mandawa Basin, resting on much older Neoproterozoic basement rock across a long unconformity, and reaches a total thickness of more than 110 meters. Composed mainly of sandstone with shale, siltstone, clay, conglomerate and limestone, it ranges in age from the late Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, roughly 165 to 130 million years ago.
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It reaches a total sedimentary thickness of more than 110 metres (360 ft). The formation ranges in age from the late Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, Oxfordian to Hauterivian stages, with the base of the formation possibly extending into the Callovian.
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