Drysdall & Kitching locality 10, Upper Luangwa Valley: Wuchiapingian, Zambia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Pareiasauria indet. (Seeley 1888)
Therocephalia
Therocephalia indet. (Broom 1903)
Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
Aulacephalodon sp. Seeley 1898
    = Odontocyclops whaitsi Broom 1913
Angielczyk et al. 2014
Gorgonopidae
Prorubidgea sp. Broom 1940
synonym of Aelurognathus
Dinogorgon sp. Broom 1936
see common names

Geography
Country:Zambia
Coordinates: 10.7° South, 33.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:54.8° South, 13.3° 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:184662
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-03-16 10:33:16 Last modified:2017-03-16 10:33:16
Access level:database members Released:2018-03-16 10:33:16
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]