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 | |
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
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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
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Amphibia | |
"Parotosaurus megarhinus n. sp." = Cherninia megarhina3
"Parotosaurus megarhinus n. sp." = Cherninia megarhina3 Chernin and Cosgriff 1975 tetrapod BP/1/4223
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"Eryosuchus pronus" = Stanocephalosaurus pronus5
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Batrachosuchus concordi n. sp.2
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Bivalvia | |
Unio karrooensis freshwater mussel |