Lukuga (Permian of Congo-Kinshasa)

Also known as PGAP 13428

Where: Congo-Kinshasa (6.0° S, 28.4° E: paleocoordinates 51.5° S, 5.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Transition Formation (Upper Lukuga Group), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Correlation from Langford, 1992

Primary reference: O. A. Hoeg and M.N. Bose. 1960. The Glossopteris flora of the Belgian Congo, with a note on some fossil plants from the Zambesi Basin (Mozambique). Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge 32:1-99 [A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 30986: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003

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Taxonomic list

• List from p. 84. Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
 Coniferales -
Samaropsis "sp. 1" Göppert 1864
Cordaitopsida
  - Cordaitaceae
Noeggerathiopsis "sp. 1" Feistmantel 1879
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Phyllotheca "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828
Dictyopteridiopsida
  -
Arberiopsida
 Arberiales -
Glossopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 2" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 3" Brongniart 1828
Cyclodendron
  -
Cyclodendron "sp. 1" Kräusel 1928