northwestern Slope Lihandje Mountains/Njalila (Triassic of Tanzania)

Where: Ruvuma, Tanzania (10.3° S, 35.3° E: paleocoordinates 53.8° S, 23.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cynognathus subzone C other zone, Lifua Member (Manda Beds Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• "upper bonebed" of Manda Beds: now the Lifua Member. "Manda Beds are correlated with Subzone C of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group, South Africa, which has been dated as latest Anisian in age"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; lithology not reported

• "seasonally arid fluviodeltaic environment"
• "fining upward cycles of reddish feldspathic sandstones grading up to green or red micaceous siltstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Nowack in 1934-1936

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1938. Ein großer Stagonolepide aus der jüngeren Triass Ostafrikas. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Beilage-Band B 80:264-276 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105767: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 24.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Traversodontidae
Theropsodon njalilus n. gen. n. sp.
Theropsodon njalilus n. gen. n. sp. Huene 1950 cynodont
GPIT Ka 304, skull
Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia -
Stagonosuchus nyassicus n. gen. n. sp.
Stagonosuchus nyassicus n. gen. n. sp. Huene 1938 archosaur
GPIT/RE/3831/1-2 (lectotype), partial postcranium. GPIT/RE/3832/1-15 (paralectotype), postcrania