Where: Iringa, Tanzania (10.4° S, 35.3° E: paleocoordinates 53.8° S, 23.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cynognathus subzone C other zone, Lifua Member (Manda Beds Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• "Upper Bone Bed (K.8)", now the Lifua Member of the Manda Beds.

•Lifua Member of the Manda beds is "correlated with Subzone C of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone. This correlation was based on the shared occurrences of the dicynodont Angonisaurus and the cynodonts Diademodon and Cricodon. Subzone C of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone is suggested to be late Anisian. The Rio Mendoza Formation of Argentina correlates with Subzone C of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone(Rubidge 2005), and thus the Lifua Member of the Manda Beds. The top of the Rio Mendoza Formation has been dated at 243 ± 5 Ma (Avila et al. 2006), which is consistent with the Anisian age as predicted by biostratigraphy." (Nesbitt et al. 2010: Nature 464:95-98)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; red sandstone and micaceous, green, red siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Haughton, Parrington

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• UMZC: University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, UK

•SAM: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town

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 55756: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 04.11.2005, edited by Richard Butler and Bethany Allen

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