Drysdall & Kitching locality 3, Upper Luangwa Valley: Wuchiapingian, Zambia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Cyniscops sp.
Broom 1937
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Drysdall and Kitching 1963 | |||||||||
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Gorgonopidae
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Scylacops sp.
Broom 1913
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Drysdall and Kitching 1963 | |||||||||
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Aelurognathus sp.
Haughton 1924
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Drysdall and Kitching 1963 | |||||||||
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Anomodontia
- Cryptodontidae
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Odontocyclops whaitsi
(Broom 1913)
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Angielczyk et al. 2014 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| SAM-PK-K7936 | ||||||||||
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Dicynodon cf. corstorphinei
Broom and Haughton 1917
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| synonym of Oudenodon bainii | ||||||||||
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Dicynodon cf. breviceps
Haughton 1915
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| synonym of Oudenodon bainii | ||||||||||
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Anomodontia
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Dicynodon grimbeeki
Broom 1935
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Drysdall and Kitching 1963 | |||||||||
| synonym of Diictodon feliceps | ||||||||||
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Dicynodon cf. sollasi
Broom 1921
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Drysdall and Kitching 1963 | |||||||||
| synonym of Diictodon feliceps | ||||||||||
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Emydops sp.
Broom 1912
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Drysdall and Kitching 1963 | |||||||||
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Endothiodon sp.
Owen 1876
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Drysdall and Kitching 1963 | 2 individuals | ||||||||
| Two specimens, including BP/1/3574 | ||||||||||
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Parringtoniella sp.
Toerien 1953
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Drysdall and Kitching 1963 | |||||||||
| synonym of Pristerodon | ||||||||||
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Dicynodon acutirostris
Broom 1935
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Drysdall and Kitching 1963 | |||||||||
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= Dicynodontia indet.
Owen 1859
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Angielczyk et al. 2014 | |||||||||
| The validity of this occurrence cannot be determined (see Angielczyk et al. 2014: 116) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Zambia |
| Coordinates: | 10.6° South, 33.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 54.5° South, 13.1° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Lopingian |
| Stage: | Wuchiapingian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
| Key time interval: | Wuchiapingian | Other zone: | Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone |
| Age range of interval: | 259.51000 - 254.14000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Madumabisa Mudstone | Member: | Upper | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 'Lower fossiliferous beds' of the Madumabisa Mudstone according to Drysdall & Kitching (1963); Angielczyk et al. (2014) argued that the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone contains a single faunal assemblage correlated to the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous mudstone |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,concretion |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 184599 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-03-13 11:28:29 | Last modified: | 2017-03-16 10:07:30 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2018-03-13 11:28:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 58263. | L. D. Boonstra. 1938. A report on some Karroo reptiles from the Luangwa Valley, Northern Rhodesia. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 94(1-4):371-384 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno] |
Secondary references:
| 60398 | K. D. Angielczyk, J. S. Steyer, C. A. Sidor, R. H. H. Smith, R. L. Whatley and S. Tolan. 2014. Permian and Triassic Dicynodont (Therapsida: Anomodontia) Faunas of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Taxonomic Update and Implications for Dicynodont Biogeography and Biostratigraphy. In C. F. Kammerer, K. D. Angielczyk and J. Fröbisch (eds.), Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida 93-138 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno/M. Uhen] | |
| 34186 | 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] |