Chinguba stream, Chicapa River (Phyllopod beds) (Triassic of Angola)

Where: Angola (8.4° S, 20.5° E: paleocoordinates 28.8° S, 2.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cassange Group, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

• Conchostracan beds assigned to Upper Triassic by Tasch (1987)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical in Lisbon

Primary reference: C. Teixeira. 1975. Sur une larve d'insecte fossile (Coleoptere) du Karoo de l'Angola. Boletim da Sociedade Geológica de Portugal 19:131-133 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210174: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.05.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Estheria sp. Ruppell 1837 clam shrimp
Insecta
 Coleoptera - Coptoclavidae
Coptoclavia africana n. sp. Teixeira 1975 beetle
mentioned as Palaeodictyoptera in Teixeira, 1960