Spurwing Island, Lake Kariba (Triassic of Zimbabwe)

Where: Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe (16.7° S, 28.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.6° S, 9.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pebbly Arkose Formation (Karoo Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Geldennhuys

Primary reference: L. Sciscio, P. A. Viglietti, P. M. Barrett, T. J. Broderick, D. Munyikwa, K. E. J. Chapelle, K. N. Dollman, S. F. Edwards, M. Zondo and J. N. Choiniere. 2021. Sedimentology and palaeontology of the Upper Karoo Group in the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe: new localities and their implications for interbasinal correlation. Geological Magazine 158:1035-1058 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 220586: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.06.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Massospondylidae
Massospondylus sp. Owen 1854 sauropodomorph
NHMZ QG 143, postcrania