Ganigobis, Upper Dwyka Shales, Berlin Collection: Artinskian, Namibia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepidae
Acrolepis lotzi Gürich 1923
see common names

Geography
Country:Namibia
Coordinates: 25.9° South, 18.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.2° South, 38.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Cisuralian
Stage: Artinskian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 2
Key time interval: Artinskian
Age range of interval: 290.1 - 283.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Dwyka Shale Formation:Ganigobis
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Dwyka Shales
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: carbonaceous "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Sammling des Zentralen Geologischen Dienstes der Staatlichen Geologischen Kommission der D.D.R., Berlin.
Metadata
Database number:131110
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-07-20 07:24:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-07-20 07:24:49
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
42335. B. G. Gardiner. 1962. Namaichthys Schroederi, Gürich and other Palaeozoic Fishes from South Africa. Palaeontology 5(1):9-21 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/S. Fasey]