Also known as Vulcanodon type site, Dinosaur Island

Where: Mashonaland North, Zimbabwe (16.8° S, 28.3° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 5.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Forest Sandstone Formation (Karoo Group), Sinemurian to Sinemurian (199.3 - 182.7 Ma)

• Uppermost Forest Sandstone, and likely to be Sinemurian–Pliensbachian (Viglietti et al. 2017)

•

•beds were unnamed in the original papers, but were subsequently referred to as the "Vulcanodon Beds". Beds are described as "very near the Trias-Jurassic boundary, probably tending towards the lowermost Jurassic"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lenticular, coarse-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Gibson, G. Bond, M. Raath, M. Willborg in 1969-1970

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: G. Bond, J. F. Wilson, and M. A. Raath. 1970. Upper Karroo pillow lava and a new sauropod horizon in Rhodesia. Nature 227:1339 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34768: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.09.2003, edited by Kaitlin Maguire

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)