Also known as Ruhuhu Coalfields, Songea District, Survey No. S250, Karroo, Karoo
Where: Ruvuma, Tanzania (10.3° S, 35.2° E: paleocoordinates 55.1° S, 15.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cistecephalus zone, Usili Formation (Songea Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• "Lower Bone Bed [K6]" - now recognised as part of the Usili Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, gray, green mudstone
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•Stockley says that the sandstone forming the base was not found at B2, "the beds being faulted against the Kingori Sandstones."
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•There is some dispute as to whether this is a true bone bed. Haughton says it should be called a bed bearing bones instead.
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: S. H. Haughton. 1932. On a collection of Karroo vertebrates from Tanganyika Territory. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 88(4):634-671 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38065: authorized by Robin Whatley, entered by Robin Whatley on 06.04.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Dicynodon huenei n. sp." = Platypodosaurus huenei
"Dicynodon huenei n. sp." = Platypodosaurus huenei Haughton 1932 dicynodont a crushed but almost complete skull
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