Kadzi, main locality (Jurassic of Zimbabwe)

Where: Mashonaland North, Zimbabwe (16.3° S, 30.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.2° S, 5.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kadzi Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• isolated bones from 0.5 sq km area, all in one 20 m unit

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; coarse-grained, glauconitic, yellow, conglomeratic sandstone and red, silty mudstone

• "an alluvial faun derived from a nearby souce of considerable relief, probably related to the graben faulting of the Zambezi trough."
• "a cross-bedded, generally yellow, coarse sandstone unit containing several conglomeratic layers...both underlain and overlain by silty mudrock which is commonly red."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1967-1972

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: G. Bond. 1965. Some new fossil localities in the Karroo System of Rhodesia. Arnoldia, Series of Miscellaneous Publications, National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2(11):1-4 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49100: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.04.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
aff. Ceratosauria indet.1 Marsh 1884 ceratosaur
 Saurischia -
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
Brachiosaurus sp.2 Riggs 1903 brachiosaurid
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
? Camarasaurus sp.2 Cope 1877 camarasaurid
 Saurischia - Dicraeosauridae
Dicraeosaurus sp.2 Janensch 1914 dicraeosaurid
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Barosaurus sp.2 Marsh 1890 diplodocine
unclassified
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Plantae indet.2 Haeckel 1866
"fossil wood"