Spurwing East Palaeosol, Spurwing Island (Triassic to of Zimbabwe)

Also known as Lake Kariba

Where: Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe (16.7° S, 28.7° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° S, 7.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pebbly Arkose Formation (Karoo Group), Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; bioturbated, paleosol/pedogenic, fine-grained, nodular, silty sandstone and medium-grained, red sandstone

• "above trough cross-bedded, medium-grained, mauve sandstones and within a finer-grained facies composed of very fine-grained, silty sandstone and siltstones that often display palaeopedogenic alteration features such as mottling, bioturbation, desiccation cracks and pedogenic nodules."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2017–2018

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 220713: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.06.2021, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Phytosauria -
? Phytosauria indet.
? Phytosauria indet. Jaeger 1828 archosaur
SW-18-4 (articulated hindlimb) - also ID'ed as Archosauromorpha in paper
 Saurischia -
Musankwa sanyatiensis n. gen. n. sp.
Musankwa sanyatiensis n. gen. n. sp. Barrett et al. 2024 sauropodomorph
NHMZ 2521 - holotype