Where: Northern, Malawi (10.3° S, 34.0° E: paleocoordinates 31.9° S, 15.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Dinosaur Beds Formation), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; tabular, fine-grained, medium, red, white sandstone and gray, red, silty mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: E. M. Gomani. 1999. Sauropod caudal vertebrae from Malawi, Africa. In Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:235-248 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 50901: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Malawisaurus dixeyi Haughton 1928 sauropod |