B2, Mount Kiwohe (Lower Bone Bed, K6): Wuchiapingian, Tanzania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Therapsida indet. Broom 1905
1 specimen
scapula
Anomodontia
Dicynodon huenei n. sp. (Haughton 1932)
1 specimen
recombined as Daptocephalus huenei
a crushed but almost complete skull
see common names

Geography
Country:Tanzania State/province:Ruvuma County:Songea
Coordinates: 10.3° South, 35.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:55.1° South, 15.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Lopingian
Stage:Wuchiapingian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Wuchiapingian Zone: Cistecephalus
Age range of interval:259.90000 - 254.17000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Songea Formation:Usili
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Lower Bone Bed [K6]" - now recognised as part of the Usili Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:concretionary,gray,green mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: General note from Stockley (1932): K6, Lower Bone Bed. Thick-bedded, coarse, gritty, current-bedded sandstone often containing reptilian bones, and marls or greenish and grey mudstones with several seams of nodular limestone, also frequently containing fossil bones. Also fossil wood (Dadoxylon). Stockley says that the sandstone forming the base was not found at B2, "the beds being faulted against the Kingori Sandstones." There is some dispute as to whether this is a true bone bed. Haughton says it should be called a bed bearing bones instead.
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Ruhuhu Coalfields, Songea District, Survey No. S250, Karroo, Karoo
Database number:38065
Authorizer:R. Whatley Enterer:R. Whatley
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-04-06 14:03:43 Last modified:2017-12-15 10:06:27
Access level:the public Released:2004-04-06 14:03:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6969. S. H. Haughton. 1932. On a collection of Karroo vertebrates from Tanganyika Territory. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 88(4):634-671 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

10013 G. M. Stockley. 1932. The geology of the Ruhuhu Coalfields, Tanganyika Territory. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 88(4):610-622 [R. Whatley/R. Whatley/R. Whatley]