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
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 | |
Theropsodon njalilus n. gen. n. sp.
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Reptilia | |
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
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