Munyamadzi Corridor, Kerr's 1974 locality 1: Wuchiapingian, Zambia
collected 1972

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Lystrosaurus cf. curvatus (Owen 1876)
1 individual
OUM.TSK 2 (single skull)
    = Lystrosauridae informal new genus and species
Angielczyk et al. 2014
Anomodontia
Dicynodon huenei (Haughton 1932)
Angielczyk et al. 2014 1 individual
recombined as Daptocephalus huenei
TSK 14
see common names

Geography
Country:Zambia
Coordinates: 12.3° South, 32.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:55.4° South, 10.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Lopingian
Stage:Wuchiapingian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Wuchiapingian
Age range of interval:259.51000 - 254.14000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Madumabisa Mudstone Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Angielczyk et al. (2014) argued that the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone contains a single faunal assemblage correlated to the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,gray poorly lithified calcareous mudstone
Secondary lithology:concretionary calcareous mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "The fossiliferous rock is a near-horizontal, brown and grey, fine-grained calcareous mudstone, with frequent nodules that are of the same rock type but are more calcareous, and in which the fossils themselves occur." (Kemp, 1975, Nature 254)
Environment:lacustrine - large Tectonic setting:rift
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,concretion
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),acetic,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:OUM
Collection dates:1972
Collection method comments: "Large amounts of bone have weatherd out and lie strewn over the surface but numerous good specimens were found still in situ." (Kemp, 1975, Nature 254)
Collections were made by members of the Geological Survey of Zambia.
OUM.TSK = T. S. Kemp Collection, Oxford University Museum
Metadata
Also known as:Middle Luangwa Valley
Database number:88618
Authorizer:J. Mueller, R. Butler Enterer:T. Liebrecht, R. Butler
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-04-16 19:01:39 Last modified:2017-05-03 04:49:10
Access level:the public Released:2009-04-16 19:01:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29730. G. M. King and I. Jenkins. 1997. The Dicynodont Lystrosaurus from the Upper Permian of Zambia: Evolutionary and Stratigraphical Implications. Palaeontology 40(1):149-156 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]

Secondary references:

60398 K. D. Angielczyk, J. S. Steyer, C. A. Sidor, R. H. H. Smith, R. L. Whatley and S. Tolan. 2014. Permian and Triassic Dicynodont (Therapsida: Anomodontia) Faunas of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Taxonomic Update and Implications for Dicynodont Biogeography and Biostratigraphy. In C. F. Kammerer, K. D. Angielczyk and J. Fröbisch (eds.), Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida 93-138 [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno/M. Uhen]