Where: Zambia (10.8° S, 33.1° E: paleocoordinates 53.6° S, 20.6° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cynognathus B other zone, Lower Member (Ntawere Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• The lower N'tawere Formation is reported to be equivalent in age with subzone B of the Cynognathus AZ by Fröbisch (2009: Earth-Science Reviews 95: 119-157), and was referred by him to the Nonesian LVF, lower Anisian
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone and red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Kitching in 1963; reposited in the BPI
Primary reference: A. R. Drysdall and J. W. Kitching. 1963. A re-examination of the Karroo succession and fossil localities of part of the Upper Luangwa Valley. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Northern Rhodesia 1:1-62 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 99436: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Diademodon rhodesiensis n. sp." = Diademodon tetragonus1
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