Ntumbe area tracksite 1, Chewore: Middle Jurassic - Late Jurassic, Zimbabwe
collected by T. Broderick 1984, 1990, 2001

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845
1 individual
trackway of 45 prrints
see common names

Geography
Country:Zimbabwe State/province:Mashonaland West County:Hurungwe
Coordinates: 16.2° South, 30.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.4° South, 4.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic - Late Jurassic
10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 3-5 - Jurassic 5-6
Key time interval: Middle Jurassic - Late Jurassic
Age range of interval: 174.7 - 145 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dande Sandstone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: originally suggested to be Early Jurassic
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:medium,gray,yellow lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "...forms the most resistant horizon and consists of a grey to buff coloured, medium-grained sandstone."
Environment:lacustrine - small
Geology comments: "playa lakes"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Degree of concentration:-single event
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),peel or thin section,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:T. Broderick Collection dates:1984, 1990, 2001
Metadata
Also known as:Chiwore, Site 1, Old Site
Database number:45532
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-10-29 14:01:59 Last modified:2023-08-07 14:04:42
Access level:the public Released:2004-10-29 14:01:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11946.ETE D. Munyikwa. 1996. Description of the first dinosaurs trackway found in Zimbabwe. Arnoldia Zimbabwe 10(6):36-45 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

85588 A. Ait-Kaci Ahmed. 2015. The Ntumbe River Dinosaur Footprint Sites (Lower Zambezi Valley, Chewore South). Geological Society of Zimbabwe Field Excursion Guidebook 1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33394ETE A. Ait-Kaci Ahmed and M. A. Mukandi. 2001. A survey of the new dinosaur footprint sites in the vicinity of the Ntmbe River, Chewore Safari Area. Zimbabwe Geological Survey, Harare 1-5 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32402ETE T. Lingham-Soliar and T. J. Borderick. 2000. An enigmatic early Mesozoic dinosaur trackway from Zimbabwe. Ichnos 7(2):135-148 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
10740ETE T. Lingham-Soliar, T. Broderick, and A. A. K. Ahmed. 2003. Closely associated theropod trackways from the Jurassic of Zimbabwe. Naturwissenschaften 90:572-576 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76163 P. M. Oesterlen and B. D. Millsteed. 1994. Lithostratigraphy, palaeontology, and sedimentary environments of the western Cabora Bassa Basin, Lower Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe. South African Journal of Geology 97(2):205-224 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25845ETE B. T. Roach and D. L. Brinkman. 2007. A reevaluation of cooperative pack hunting and gregariousness in Deinonychus antirrhopus and other nonavian theropod dinosaurs. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 48(1):103-138 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]