Where: Tanzania (5.0° S, 39.0° E: paleocoordinates 51.3° S, 26.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; micaceous, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by F. P. Mennell
• SAM: South African Museum, Cape Town
Primary reference: S. H. Haughton. 1924. On Reptilian Remains from the Karroo Beds of East Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 80(317):1-11 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 171354: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.07.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Tangasaurus mennelli n. gen. n. sp.
Tangasaurus mennelli n. gen. n. sp. Haughton 1924 diapsid Bulawayo Museum specimen, SAM-6231 (counterpart to Bulawayo specimen), SAM 6232, plus another specimen "too weathered and too fragmentary for investigation"
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