Parrington locality B36, near Mkongoleko (Triassic of Tanzania)

Where: Ruvuma, Tanzania (10.3° S, 35.2° E: paleocoordinates 53.7° S, 23.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Lifua Member of the Manda beds is "correlated with Subzone C of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone. This correlation was based on the shared occurrences of the dicynodont Angonisaurus and the cynodonts Diademodon and Cricodon. Subzone C of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone is suggested to be late Anisian. The Rio Mendoza Formation of Argentina correlates with Subzone C of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone(Rubidge 2005), and thus the Lifua Member of the Manda Beds. The top of the Rio Mendoza Formation has been dated at 243 ± 5 Ma (Avila et al. 2006), which is consistent with the Anisian age as predicted by biostratigraphy." (Nesbitt et al. 2010: Nature 464:95-98)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, calcareous siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by FR Parrington in 1933; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: chemical, acetic,

• NHMUK = new abbreviation for BMNH

Primary reference: A. J. Charig. 1956. New Triassic archosaurs from Tanganyika including Mandasuchus and Teleocrater. PhD dissertation. Cambridge, University of Cambridge [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136890: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
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Nyasasaurus parringtoni n. gen. n. sp.
Nyasasaurus parringtoni n. gen. n. sp. Nesbitt et al. 2013 dinosaur
NHMUK R6856 (specimen "50b" of Charig 1956), right humerus, three partial presacral vertebrae and three sacral vertebrae (holotype)
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Traversodontidae
cf. Scalenodon sp. Crompton 1955 cynodont
Specimen "50a", incomplete femur