Where: Northern Region, Malawi (10.7° S, 34.2° E: paleocoordinates 55.3° S, 14.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cistecephalus Assemblage other zone, Chiweta Beds Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Correlated to the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa, of early late Permian (Wuchiapingian) age: "the overlapping ranges of Endothiodon and Oudenodon, consistent with the presence of Gorgonops ?dixeyi and Aelurognathus, argue for a lower Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone placement for the Chiweta Beds" (Jacobs et al. 2005)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by F. Dixey in 1925
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: S. H. Haughton. 1926. On Karroo vertebrates from Nyasaland. Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 29:69-83 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176292: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 06.02.2016, edited by Emma Dunne
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Lende chiweta n. gen. n. sp.4
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Kembawacela yajuwayeyi n. sp.1
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Endothiodon cf. bathystoma Owen dicynodont | |
Gorgonopsia indet. Seeley 1894 therapsid | |
"Chiwetasaurus dixeyi" = Gorgonops dixeyi3
"Chiwetasaurus dixeyi" = Gorgonops dixeyi3 Haughton 1926 therapsid SAM-PK-7857, crushed skull lacking the snout
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