Ruhuhu Coalfield (Permian to of Tanzania)

Also known as PGAP 13217

Where: Tanzania (10.3° S, 35.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.3° S, 35.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Upper Member (Coal Measures Formation), Roadian to Roadian (272.3 - 264.3 Ma)

• K4 of Songea Series local stage

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Age assignment is from Langford, 1992

Primary reference: A. M. Quennell, A.C.M. McKinlay, and W.G. Aitken. 1956. Summary of the geology of Tanganyika. Tanganyika Geological Survey Department Memoir 1:1-264 [A. Rees/A. Rees/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 30941: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• List from p. 148-149. Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
Cordaitopsida
  - Cordaitaceae
Noeggerathiopsis "sp. 1" Feistmantel 1879
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Schizoneura "sp. 1" Schimper and Mougeot 1844
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Taeniopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828 cycads
Taeniopteris "sp. 2" Brongniart 1828 cycads
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
Glossopteris "sp. 6" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 7" Brongniart 1828
Vertebraria "sp. 1" Royle 1839