Where: Kenya (3.8° S, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 50.7° S, 26.5° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Maji ya Chumvi Formation, Lopingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
• Insects likely came from the lower unit of this formation, which comprises black shales with fossil plants. It is currently dated to the Late Permian. The middle and upper units of the same formation are Early Triassic (see Hankel 1992). Thus a possibility remains that these insects could be Triassic even if it better corresponds to the Late Permian (see Ballard et al. 1986).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: A. Nel, R. Garrouste, and J. Prokop. 2015. The first African Anthracoptilidae (Insecta: Paoliida) near the Permian-Triassic boundary in Kenya. Zootaxa 3925:145-150 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 166806: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.02.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Afrocladus pumilio n. gen. n. sp., Afrocladus kenyaensis n. sp.
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