Nyanzirau (Triassic of Zimbabwe)

Also known as Lake Kariba

Where: Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe (16.8° S, 28.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 41.9° S, 11.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; paleosol/pedogenic, nodular conglomerate and massive, medium-grained sandstone

• "a medium-grained, massive sandstone that overlies a pedogenic nodule conglomerate (with intraformational mud chips and occasional fossil vertebrate material)"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2017–2018

Collection methods: surface (float),

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 220710: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.06.2021

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropodomorpha indet.
Sauropodomorpha indet. Huene 1932 sauropodomorph
NZ-17-1