Drysdall & Kitching locality 5, Upper Luangwa Valley: Wuchiapingian, Zambia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Cistecephalus planiceps Owen 1876
Drysdall and Kitching 1963 1 individual
BP/1/3437
    = Cistecephalidae informal new species
Angielczyk et al. 2014
Reptilia
Pareiasauria indet. (Seeley 1888)
Drysdall and Kitching 1963
Gorgonopidae
Dinogorgon sp. Broom 1936
Drysdall and Kitching 1963
Prorubidgea sp. Broom 1940
Sigogneau-Russell 1989 1 individual
synonym of Aelurognathus
BP/1/391
Aelurognathus quadrata (Haughton 1926)
Sigogneau-Russell 1989 1 individual
recombined as Lycaenops quadrata
BP/1/3303
Anomodontia
Dicynodon roberti n. sp. Boonstra 1938
2 individuals
synonym of Syops vanhoepeni
SAM-PK-11325a, SAM-PK-11325b
Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
Aulacephalodon sp. Seeley 1898
Drysdall and Kitching 1963
    = Odontocyclops whaitsi Broom 1913
Angielczyk et al. 2014
see common names

Geography
Country:Zambia
Coordinates: 10.8° South, 33.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:54.8° South, 13.2° 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 Assemblage Zone
Age range of interval:259.51000 - 254.14000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Madumabisa Mudstone Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Southern group of the 'upper 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:brown,gray,green 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:184660
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-03-16 10:04:36 Last modified:2017-03-16 10:04:36
Access level:database members Released:2018-03-16 10:04:36
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]
57886 D. S. Sigogneau-Russell. 1989. Theriodontia I: Phthinosuchia, Biarmosuchia, Eotitanosuchia, Gorgonopsia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]