Where: Ruvuma, Tanzania (10.4° S, 34.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 40.3° S, 20.1° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cynognathus Assemblage Zone other zone, Lifua Member (Manda Beds Formation), Anisian (246.7 - 241.5 Ma)
• Anisian based on biostratigraphical correlations with the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of South Africa.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; mudstone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Parrington in 1933; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: A. J. Charig. 1967. Archosauria. In W. B. Harland (ed.), The Fossil Record: A Symposium with Documentation. Geological Society of London Special Publication 2:703-718 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 185533: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Julian Jenkins on 27.04.2017, edited by Richard Butler
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Taxonomic list
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"Parotosaurus pronus n. sp." = Stanocephalosaurus pronus
"Parotosaurus pronus n. sp." = Stanocephalosaurus pronus Howie 1970 tetrapod UMCZ collection, 48 I (type), 48 II (paratype), skulls
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| Reptilia | |
Teleocrater rhadinus n. gen. n. sp.
Teleocrater rhadinus n. gen. n. sp. Charig 1967 archosaur NHMUK PV R6795 (type), partial skeleton. Field number 48b of F. R. Parrington
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