Lake Kariba Island 126/127: Sinemurian - Pliensbachian, Zimbabwe
collected by A. Gibson, G. Bond, M. Raath, M. Willborg 1969-1970

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
1 individual
NHMZ QG24, 151, 153, 154 (5 measurements)
    = Vulcanodon karibaensis n. gen., n. sp. Raath 1972
Raath 1972
see common names

Geography
Country:Zimbabwe State/province:Mashonaland North
Coordinates: 16.8° South, 28.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.6° South, 5.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Key time interval:Sinemurian - Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Karoo Formation:Forest Sandstone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Uppermost Forest Sandstone, and likely to be Sinemurian–Pliensbachian (Viglietti et al. 2017)

beds were unnamed in the original papers, but were subsequently referred to as the "Vulcanodon Beds". Beds are described as "very near the Trias-Jurassic boundary, probably tending towards the lowermost Jurassic"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular,"cross stratification",coarse sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "it was found in a sandstone lens between two successive lava flows"; "coarse-grained trough cross-bedded sandstone"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:many
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Encrustation:none
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:A. Gibson, G. Bond, M. Raath, M. Willborg Collection dates:1969-1970
Metadata
Also known as:Vulcanodon type site, Dinosaur Island
Database number:34768
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano, K. Maguire
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-09-23 08:26:55 Last modified:2021-06-14 11:09:35
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-23 08:26:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17068.ETE G. Bond, J. F. Wilson, and M. A. Raath. 1970. Upper Karroo pillow lava and a new sauropod horizon in Rhodesia. Nature 227:1339 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

63435 G. Bond. 1972. Milestones in Rhodesian paleontology (1901–1971). Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 75(2):151-158 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
9275 M. A. Raath. 1972. Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: a new dinosaur (Reptilia: Saurischia) from near the Tria-Jurassic boundary. Arnoldia 5(31):1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
77101 L. Sciscio, P. A. Viglietti, P. M. Barrett, T. J. Broderick, D. Munyikwa, K. E. J. Chapelle, K. N. Dollman, S. F. Edwards, M. Zondo and J. N. Choiniere. 2021. Sedimentology and palaeontology of the Upper Karoo Group in the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe: new localities and their implications for interbasinal correlation. Geological Magazine 158:1035-1058 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68574 P. Taquet. 1977. Les découvertes récentes de Dinosaures du Jurassique et du Crétacé en Afrique, au Proche et Moyen-Orient et en Inde [Recent discoveries of dinosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous in Africa, the Near and Middle East, and India]. Mémoire Hors Serie—Société Géologique de France 8:325-330 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32787ETE K. L. Walsh. 1993. Drought relief and dinosaurs. Teaching Earth Sciences 18(3):87-89 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]