B17, between Matamondo and Linyanya, Parrington 77a (Triassic of Tanzania)

Where: Ruvuma, Tanzania (10.4° S, 34.8° E: paleocoordinates 53.8° S, 23.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cynognathus Assemblage Zone other zone, Lifua Member (Manda Beds Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Anisian based on biostratigraphical correlations with the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of South Africa.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; marl and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Parrington in 1933; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1939. Ein kleiner Pseudosuchier und ein Saurischier aus den ostafrikanischen Mandaschichten [A small pseudosuchian and a saurischian from the East African Manda Beds]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Beilage-Band, Abteilung B 81(1):61-69 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194382: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 19.06.2018, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia -
"Kannemeyeria latifrons" = Kannemeyeria simocephala2
"Kannemeyeria latifrons" = Kannemeyeria simocephala2 Weithofer 1888 dicynodont
FRP 77b, juvenile skull
 Therocephalia - Whaitsiidae
Theriognathus microps3 Owen 1876 therapsid
UMCZ T994
Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia -
Mandasuchus tanyauchen1 Charig 1967 archosaur
NHMUK PV R36889, maxilla