Kadzi, WNW locality (Jurassic of Zimbabwe)

Where: Mashonaland North, Zimbabwe (16.3° S, 30.7° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° S, 5.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kadzi Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• isolated bones from 0.5 sq km area, all in one 20 m unit; "sandstone, 50-70 feet thick, which in places was covered by 10 to 30 feet of coarse-grained, unconsolidated sediments" (Bertram 1971)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; coarse-grained, glauconitic, yellow, conglomeratic sandstone and red, silty mudstone

• "an alluvial faun derived from a nearby souce of considerable relief, probably related to the graben faulting of the Zambezi trough."
• "a cross-bedded, generally yellow, coarse sandstone unit containing several conglomeratic layers...both underlain and overlain by silty mudrock which is commonly red." "Vein quartz, quartzite and agate pebbles were generally found associated with the bone-bearing horizons" (Bertram 1971)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1970-1972

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: N. Bertram. 1971. A new dinosaur fossil locality in the Kadsi River area of the Zambesi Valley. Mennell Society Journal (Detritus) 6:20-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49105: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
? Camarasaurus sp.
? Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877 camarasaurid
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet., Amphicoelias sp.
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
Caudal vertebra
Amphicoelias sp. Cope 1877 sauropod
Coracoid fragment