Drysdall & Kitching locality 1, Upper Luangwa Valley: Wuchiapingian, Zambia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Pareiasauria indet.
(Seeley 1888)
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Anomodontia
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Aulacephalodon sp.
Seeley 1898
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BP/1/3242 | ||||||||||
= Dicynodontia indet.
Owen 1859
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Angielczyk et al. 2014 | |||||||||
Specimen is unprepared and cannot be identified | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Zambia |
Coordinates: | 10.7° 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: | 184661 | ||
Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2017-03-16 10:26:11 | Last modified: | 2017-03-16 10:26:11 |
Access level: | database members | Released: | 2018-03-16 10:26:11 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |
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] |