Ruhuhu Coalfield (Permian of Tanzania)

Also known as PGAP 13219

Where: Tanzania (10.3° S, 35.0° E: paleocoordinates 31.2° S, 41.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Upper Member (Ruhuhu Beds Formation), Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• K5 of Songea Series local stage

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Age assignment is from Wopfner and Diekmann, 1996.

Primary reference: A. M. Quennell, A.C.M. McKinlay, and W.G. Aitken. 1956. Summary of the geology of Tanganyika. Tanganyika Geological Survey Department Memoir 1:1-264 [A. Rees/A. Rees/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 30939: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003

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Taxonomic list

• List from p. 131. Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
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Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Phyllotheca "sp. 1"
Phyllotheca "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828
Dictyopteridiopsida
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Gangamopteris "sp. 1", Gangamopteris "sp. 2"
Arberiopsida
 Arberiales -
Glossopteris "sp. 1", Glossopteris "sp. 2", Glossopteris "sp. 3", Vertebraria "sp. 1"
Glossopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 2" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 3" Brongniart 1828
Vertebraria "sp. 1" Royle 1839