Where: Zambia (10.8° S, 33.2° E: paleocoordinates 54.8° S, 13.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone other zone, Upper Member (Madumabisa Mudstone Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Southern group of the 'upper fossiliferous beds' of the Madumabisa Mudstone according to Drysdall & Kitching (1963); Angielczyk et al. (2014) argued that the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone contains a single faunal assemblage correlated to the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, gray, green, calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: L. D. Boonstra. 1938. A report on some Karroo reptiles from the Luangwa Valley, Northern Rhodesia. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 94(1-4):371-384 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184660: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 16.03.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Dicynodon roberti n. sp." = Syops vanhoepeni
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