L39, Luangwa Basin: Wuchiapingian, Zambia
collected 2009

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anomodontia - Cryptodontidae
Odontocyclops whaitsi (Broom 1913)
1 individual
NHCC LB24
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:259.51000 - 254.14000 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: "siliciclastic"
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:185600
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-05-03 04:34:38 Last modified:2017-05-03 04:34:38
Access level:database members Released:2018-05-03 04:34:38
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]