B2, Mount Kiwohe (Lower Bone Bed, K6): Wuchiapingian, Tanzania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Therapsida indet.
Broom 1905
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1 specimen | |||||||||
scapula | ||||||||||
Anomodontia
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Dicynodon huenei n. sp.
(Haughton 1932)
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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
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] |