PBDB Collection

Kingori locality, Ruhuhu Basin: Wuchiapingian, Tanzania

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Therocephalia - Whaitsiidae

	Notaelurops cf. paucidens Broom 1936	Huene 1950	2 individuals
	GPIT K 84, 107

	Notosollasia luckhoffi Broom 1936	Huene 1950	7 individuals
	GPIT K 10, 44, 45, 50, 65, 119, 135
Therocephalia

	Silphoictidoides ruhuhuensis n. gen., n. sp. Huene 1950	Huene 1950	2 individuals
	GPIT/RE/7138, well preserved skull (holotype). GPIT/RE/7139, partial skull
Procynosuchidae

	Procynosuchus delaharpae	Huene 1950	1 individual
	GPIT K 92
Gorgonopidae

	Genovum broilii n. gen., n. sp. Huene 1950	Huene 1950	1 individual
	GPIT K 58

	Gorgonognathus maximus n. sp. Huene 1950	Huene 1950	1 individual
	GPIT K 46

	Dinogorgon quinquemolaris n. sp. Huene 1950	Huene 1950	1 individual
	GPIT K 16

	Tetraodon nowaki n. gen., n. sp. Broili and Schröder 1936	Kammerer 2016	1 individual
	BSPG 1936 III 1 (holotype)

	Lycaenops kingoriensis n. sp. Huene 1950	Huene 1950	1 individual
	GPIT/RE/7116

	Aelurognathus haughtoni n. sp. Huene 1950	Huene 1950	1 individual
	GPIT K 46b

	Cyniscops broomianus n. sp. Huene 1950	Huene 1950	1 individual
	GPIT K 51

	Dixeya quadrata Haughton 1926	Huene 1950	2 individuals
	GPIT K 41, K 115
	= cf. Arctognathus nasuta Huene 1950	Sigogneau-Russell 1989

	Dixeya nasuta n. sp. Huene 1950	Huene 1950	1 individual
	GPIT K 52

	Galerhinus rubidgei Broom 1936	Huene 1950	2 individuals
	GPIT 13, 107
	= cf. Arctognathus nasuta Huene 1950	Sigogneau-Russell 1989
Anomodontia - Lystrosauridae

	Dicynodon bathyrhynchus n. sp. von Huene 1942	von Huene 1942	1 individual
	GPIT/RE/7104, a well preserved skull
Anomodontia

	Platypodosaurus huenei (Haughton 1932)	von Huene 1942	7 individuals
	GPIT K 1, K 2, K 4, K 6a, K 6b, K 101, K 110, skulls

	Cryptocynodon parringtoni n. sp. von Huene 1942	von Huene 1942	1 individual
	GPIT K 130, a skull

	Dicynodon nowacki n. sp. von Huene 1942	von Huene 1942	1 individual
	GPIT/RE/7174, a nearly complete skull

	Cistecephalus planiceps Owen 1876	von Huene 1942	8 individuals
	GPIT K 52, 55, 56, seven skulls and one skeleton

	Kawingasaurus fossilis n. gen., n. sp. Cox 1972	King 1988	7 individuals
	UT K52, skull (holotype), UT K56, skull, and UT K55, five skull and postcranial remains
Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae

	Rhachiocephalus behemoth n. sp. Maisch 2005	Maisch 2005	1 individual
	GPIT K 15 A, a complete skull

	Platypodosaurus magnus (Owen 1876)	von Huene 1942	2 individuals
	GPIT K 15, 100, two skulls with skeletons

	Dicynodon locusticeps n. sp. von Huene 1942	von Huene 1942	1 individual
	GPIT/RE/7186, a well-preserved skull missing the temporal arch

	Pelanomodon tuberosus n. sp. von Huene 1942	von Huene 1942	1 specimen
	GPIT K 114
see common names

Geography

Country:	Tanzania	State/province:	Ruvuma	County:	Songea
Coordinates:	10.3° South, 35.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	55.1° South, 15.2° East
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Geographic resolution:	local area

Time

Period:	Permian	Epoch:	Lopingian
Stage:	Wuchiapingian	10 m.y. bin:	Permian 4
Key time interval:	Wuchiapingian	Other zone:	Cistecephalus
Age range of interval:	259.51 - 254.14 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Geological group:	Songea	Formation:	Usili
Stratigraphic resolution:	formation
Stratigraphy comments: The precise stratigraphic level of the specimens is unknown. PJW: Huttenlocker & Abdala (2015: J. Paleontology) note that this is upper Cistecephalus zone.

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:

taxonomic analysis

Metadata

Also known as:	Kingori Mountain
Database number:	181520
Authorizer:	R. Butler	Enterer:	J. Benito Moreno, R. Butler
Modifier:	P. Wagner	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2016-09-15 10:45:43	Last modified:	2021-08-12 11:41:22
Access level:	the public	Released:	2016-09-15 10:45:43
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

10013.

G. M. Stockley. 1932. The geology of the Ruhuhu Coalfields, Tanganyika Territory. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 88(4):610-622 [R. Whatley/R. Whatley/R. Whatley]

Secondary references:

64090		F. v. Huene. 1950. Die Theriodontier des ostafrikanischen Ruhuhu-Gebietes in der Tuebinger Sammlung. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie and Palaeontologie, Abhandlungen 92:47-136 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]
57838		C. F. Kammerer. 2016. Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia). PeerJ 4:e1608 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
71900		C. F. Kammerer. 2019. Revision of the Tanzanian dicynodont Dicynodon huenei (Therapsida: Anomodontia) from the Permian Usili Formation. PeerJ 7 [S. Hellert/S. Hellert]
29055		G. M. King. 1988. Anomodontia. In G. Fischer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 1-174 [H. Sims/J. Camp]
59971		M. W. Maisch. 2005. Observations on Karoo and Gondwana vertebrates. part 6. A new rhachiocephalid dicynodont (Therapsida) from the Upper Permian of the Ruhuhu Basin (Tanzania). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 273(3):313-355 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]
64078		M. W. Maisch. 2017. Re-assessment of Silphoictidoides ruhuhuensis Von Huene, 1950 (Therapsida, Therocephalia) from the Late Permian of Tanzania: one of the most basal baurioids known. Palaeodiversity 10:25-39 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]
57886		D. S. Sigogneau-Russell. 1989. Theriodontia I: Phthinosuchia, Biarmosuchia, Eotitanosuchia, Gorgonopsia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]
37154		F. von Huene. 1942. Die Anomodontier des Ruhuhu-Gebietes in der Tübinger Sammlung [Anomodontia of Ruhuhu valley in the collection of Tübingen]. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 94:154-184 [J. Fröbisch/M. Walther/J. Benito Moreno]