L38, Luangwa Basin: Wuchiapingian, Zambia
collected 2009
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anomodontia
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Diictodon feliceps
(Owen 1876)
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4 individuals | |||||||||
| NHCC LB2, NHCC LB6, NHCC LB7, NHCC LB27 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Zambia |
| Coordinates: | 10.6° South, 33.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 54.6° South, 13.1° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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: | 259.51 - 254.14 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Madumabisa Mudstone | Member: | Upper | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 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 |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 2009 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 184673 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-03-16 11:26:39 | Last modified: | 2017-03-16 11:28:10 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2018-03-16 11:26:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |