Wankie: Artinskian, Zimbabwe

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Calamitaceae
Calamites informal sp. 1 axis Suckow 1784
Arberiopsida - Arberiales
Vertebraria informal sp. 1 root Royle 1839
Glossopteris informal sp. 1 leaf Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris informal sp. 2 leaf Brongniart 1828
Dictyopteridiopsida
Gangamopteris informal sp. 1 leaf McCoy 1875
Gangamopteris informal sp. 2 leaf McCoy 1875
Gangamopteris informal sp. 3 leaf McCoy 1875
Pinopsida - Cordaitanthales
Cordaites informal sp. 1 leaf Unger 1850
Coniferales
Samaropsis informal sp. 1 Göppert 1864
unclassified
Walikalia informal sp. 1 Hoeg and Bose 1960
see common names

Geography
Country:Zimbabwe
Coordinates: 18.4° South, 26.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:60.3° South, 17.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Stage:Artinskian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 2
*Period:Early/Lower Permian
Key time interval:Artinskian
Age range of interval:290.10000 - 283.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: K2-3 local stage
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: The floral list is a composite of 4 localities. Age assignment is from Langford, 1992.
Taxonomic list comments:List from p. 19. Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
Metadata
Also known as:PGAP 13215
Database number:30992
Authorizer:A. Rees Enterer:A. Rees
Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-04-02 12:40:55 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2003-04-02 12:40:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
8157.PGAP 1028G. Bond. 1973. The palaeontology of Rhodesia. Geological Survey of Rhodesia Bulletin 70:1-121 [A. Rees/A. Rees]