Locality 15, Upper Luangwa Valley, 3.5 miles west of Sitwe (Triassic of Zambia)

Where: Eastern, Zambia (10.8° S, 33.1° E: paleocoordinates 53.6° S, 20.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cynognathus subzone C other zone, Upper Member (Ntawere Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• The upper N'tawere Formation is reported to be equivalent in age with subzone C of the Cynognathus AZ by Fröbisch (2009: Earth-Science Reviews 95: 119-157), and was referred by him to the Perovkan LVF, lower Anisian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; nodular, red mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by Kitching, Drysdall, BMNH in 1961, 1963; reposited in the BMNH, BPI

Primary reference: A. R. Drysdall and J. W. Kitching. 1963. A re-examination of the Karroo succession and fossil localities of part of the Upper Luangwa Valley. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Northern Rhodesia 1:1-62 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99437: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Stahleckeriidae
Zambiasaurus submersus n. gen. n. sp.4, Sangusaurus edentatus n. gen. n. sp.4
Zambiasaurus submersus n. gen. n. sp.4 Cox 1969 dicynodont
LM/NH 9/2 skull fragment (holotype), BMNH R.9001-9140, LM/NH 9/3-9/35
Sangusaurus edentatus n. gen. n. sp.4 Cox 1969 dicynodont
LM/NH 9/1, partial skull
 Therapsida - Trirachodontidae
? Trirachodon sp. Seeley 1895 cynodont
Poorly preserved skull
 Therapsida - Traversodontidae
Luangwa drysdalli n. gen. n. sp.1
Luangwa drysdalli n. gen. n. sp.1 Brink 1963 cynodont
BP/1/3731, skull (holotype). BP/1/3733, OUMNH SK121, skulls
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Mastodonsauridae
"Parotosaurus megarhinus n. sp." = Cherninia megarhina3
"Parotosaurus megarhinus n. sp." = Cherninia megarhina3 Chernin and Cosgriff 1975 tetrapod
BP/1/4223
 Temnospondyli - Paracyclotosauridae
"Eryosuchus pronus" = Stanocephalosaurus pronus5
"Eryosuchus pronus" = Stanocephalosaurus pronus5 Howie 1970 tetrapod
BP/1/4221, partial skull
 Temnospondyli - Brachyopidae
Batrachosuchus concordi n. sp.2 Chernin 1977 tetrapod
BPI F3728, partial skull
Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio karrooensis freshwater mussel