Where: Ruvuma, Tanzania (10.3° S, 35.1° E: paleocoordinates 55.1° S, 15.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cistecephalus other zone, Usili Formation (Songea Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• "Lower Bone Bed [K6]" - now recognised as part of the Usili Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. M. Stockley. 1932. The geology of the Ruhuhu Coalfields, Tanganyika Territory. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 88(4):610-622 [R. Whatley/R. Whatley/R. Whatley]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178128: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 20.04.2016, edited by Richard Butler, Bethany Allen and Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Dicynodon roberti" = Syops vanhoepeni1, Dicynodon angielczyki3, "Endothiodon cf. bathystoma" = Endothiodon bathystoma2, "Pachytegos stockleyi n. gen. n. sp." = Endothiodon bathystoma2
"Dicynodon roberti" = Syops vanhoepeni1 Boonstra 1938 dicynodont SAM 11706, piece of intertemporal region
Dicynodon angielczyki3 Kammerer 2019 dicynodont Left maxilla and lower jaw tip, originally identified as "Dicynodon tealei", cited as "Dicynodon huenei" by Kammerer et al., 2011
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"Neomegacyclops cyclops n. sp." = Rhachiocephalus magnus1, "Megacyclops usiliensis n. sp." = Rhachiocephalus magnus4, Dicynodon tealei n. sp.2
"Neomegacyclops cyclops n. sp." = Rhachiocephalus magnus1 Owen 1876 therapsid SAM 11707, portion of a pineal area of skull
Dicynodon tealei n. sp.2 Haughton 1932 therapsid SAM-PK-10631, a fragment of skull roof surrounding the pinneal foramen
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"Tangagorgon tenuirostris n. gen. n. sp." = Lycaenops tenuirostris1
"Tangagorgon tenuirostris n. gen. n. sp." = Lycaenops tenuirostris1 Boonstra 1953 therapsid SAM 11744 (holotype), partial skull
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