Where: Iringa, Tanzania (10.5° S, 34.6° E: paleocoordinates 53.9° S, 23.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-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 Lifua Member of the Manda Beds. "Manda Beds are correlated with Subzone C of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group, South Africa, which has been dated as latest Anisian in age"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Various fragmentary bones also found

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 55757: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 04.11.2005, edited by Richard Butler

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