B2, Mount Kiwohe (Lower Bone Bed, K6) (Permian of Tanzania)

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

• General note from Stockley (1932): K6, Lower Bone Bed. Thick-bedded, coarse, gritty, current-bedded sandstone often containing reptilian bones, and marls or greenish and grey mudstones with several seams of nodular limestone, also frequently containing fossil bones. Also fossil wood (Dadoxylon).

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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

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Therapsida indet.
Therapsida indet. therapsid
scapula
 Dicynodontia -
"Dicynodon huenei n. sp." = Platypodosaurus huenei
"Dicynodon huenei n. sp." = Platypodosaurus huenei Haughton 1932 dicynodont
a crushed but almost complete skull