Kadzi, main locality: Tithonian, Zimbabwe
collected 1967-1972
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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Raath and McIntosh 1987 | |||||||||
"fossil wood" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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? Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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Raath and McIntosh 1987 | 15 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Camarasauridae
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? Camarasaurus sp.
Cope 1877
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Raath and McIntosh 1987 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Brachiosauridae
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Brachiosaurus sp.
Riggs 1903
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Raath and McIntosh 1987 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
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Barosaurus sp.
Marsh 1890
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Raath and McIntosh 1987 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Dicraeosaurus sp.
Janensch 1914
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Raath and McIntosh 1987 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
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? Allosauridae indet.
Marsh 1878
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Raath and McIntosh 1987 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
= aff. Ceratosauria indet.
Marsh 1884
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Carrano et al. 2012 | |||||||||
unclassified
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Tornieria sp.
Sternfeld 1911
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Raath and McIntosh 1987 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
= Dicraeosauridae indet.
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Mannion et al. 2019 | |||||||||
caudal vertebra | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Zimbabwe | State/province: | Mashonaland North |
Coordinates: | 16.3° South, 30.8° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.2° South, 5.5° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
Key time interval: | Tithonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 149.2 - 145 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Kadzi | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: isolated bones from 0.5 sq km area, all in one 20 m unit |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "cross stratification",coarse,glauconitic,yellow conglomeratic sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | red silty mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "a cross-bedded, generally yellow, coarse sandstone unit containing several conglomeratic layers...both underlain and overlain by silty mudrock which is commonly red." | |
Environment: | alluvial fan |
Geology comments: "an alluvial faun derived from a nearby souce of considerable relief, probably related to the graben faulting of the Zambezi trough." |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | many |
Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection,observed (not collected) |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1967-1972 |
Metadata
Database number: | 49100 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-04-08 13:39:25 | Last modified: | 2021-03-31 09:33:50 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-08 13:39:25 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
32805. | G. Bond. 1965. Some new fossil localities in the Karroo System of Rhodesia. Arnoldia, Series of Miscellaneous Publications, National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2(11):1-4 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
32806 | D. C. Armstrong, C. A. Castelin, and N. H. Lockett. 1967. Notes on the Geology of the Kadsi River Area, mid-Zambezi Valley. Mennell Society Journal, The University College of Rhodesia 2:11-17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
41617 | M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
67806 | P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, D. Schwarz and O. Wings. 2019. Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod dinosaur evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(3):784-909 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
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] | |
32807 | M. A. Raath. 1967. Notes on an Occurrence of Fossil Bone in the Sipolilo-Musengezi area, Rhodesia. Mennell Society Journal (Detritus) 2:18-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
13124 | ETE | M. A. Raath and J. S. McIntosh. 1987. Sauropod dinosaurs from the central Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe, and the age of the Kadzi Formation. South African Journal of Geology 90(2):107-119 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
32810 | A. H. Wilson. 1970. Notes on the Geology of the Kadzi Area Zambezi Valley, Sipolilo District. Mennell Society Journal (Detritus) 5:26-28 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |