Sengwa River: Sakmarian - Artinskian, Zimbabwe

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Coniferales
Pinopsida - Cordaitanthales
unclassified
Dictyopteridiopsida
Arberiopsida - Arberiales
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Phyllothecaceae
see common names

Geography
Country:Zimbabwe
Coordinates: 17.7° South, 28.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:63.0° South, 16.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Cisuralian
Stage: Sakmarian - Artinskian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 2
*Period:Early/Lower Permian
Key time interval: Sakmarian - Artinskian
Age range of interval: 293.52 - 283.3 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Black Shale and Coal
Stratigraphy comments: K2 local stage. "The composition of the flora indicates a lower Ecca (Permian) age and the enclosing beds can be regarded as equivalent to the Black Shale and Coal group, which includes the main seam worked in the Wankie coal field and the only Karroo coal bed exploited in Rhodesia." (Bond, 1968)
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:List from p. 1-2. Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
Metadata
Also known as:PGAP 11007
Database number:30990
Authorizer:A. Rees Enterer:A. Rees
Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-04-02 12:40:55 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-04-02 12:40:55
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
8158.PGAP 1182G. Bond. 1968. The flora of the Black Shale and Coal Group (K2) in the mid-Zambezi Basin. Arnoldia, National Museums of Southern Rhodesia Miscellaneous Publications 3:1-2 [A. Rees/A. Rees]