Upper Luangwa Valley (Permian of Zambia)

Also known as PGAP 11006

Where: Zambia (10.5° S, 33.0° E: paleocoordinates 55.8° S, 9.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Luwumbu Coal & Madumabisa Mudstone Formation (Ecca Group), Guadalupian (273.0 - 259.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Floral list is a composite from Utting, 1970; Lacey and Smith, 1972. Age control from Langford, 1992.

Primary reference: W.S. Lacey. 1974. Some new African Gondwana plants. Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleobotany Special Publication 2:34-41 [A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 30988: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• List from p. 34-36. Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Annularia "sp. 1", "Stellotheca "sp. 1"" = Lelstotheca
Annularia "sp. 1" Sternberg 1821
"Stellotheca "sp. 1"" = Lelstotheca Maheshwari 1972
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris "sp. 1" Sternberg 1825
Cordaitopsida
  - Cordaitaceae
Noeggerathiopsis "sp. 1" Feistmantel 1879
 Coniferales -
Samaropsis "sp. 1" Göppert 1864
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Dadoxylon "sp. 1" Endlicher 1847
Dadoxylon "sp. 2" Endlicher 1847
Arberiopsida
 Arberiales -
Glossopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 2" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 3" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 4" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 5" Brongniart 1828
Sphenopsida
  -
Paracalamites "sp. 1" Zalessky 1927
 Cordaitales -
Cordaicarpus "sp. 1" Geinitz 1862