Tanga (Permian of Tanzania)
Also known as PGAP 13218
Where: Tanzania (5.1° S, 39.1° E: paleocoordinates 51.9° S, 25.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Middle Tanga Formation (Beaufort? Group), Lopingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
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 30940: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• List from p. 142-143. Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
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Voltziopsis | |
Voltziopsis "sp. 1" Potonié 1899
Voltziopsis "sp. 2" Potonié 1899 | |
Desmiophyllum "sp. 1" Lesquereux 1878
Desmiophyllum "sp. 2" Lesquereux 1878 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Baiera "sp. 1" Braun 1843 | |
Arberiopsida | |
Glossopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Cupressinocladus "sp. 1" Seward 1919 | |
Ullmannia | |
Ullmannia "sp. 1" Göppert 1850 |