Mwaka Syunguti, Site B (Cretaceous of Malawi)

Also known as Mwakasyunguti, British Expedition

Where: Northern, Malawi (10.3° S, 34.0° E: paleocoordinates 31.9° S, 15.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dinosaur Beds Formation (Lupata Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; brown claystone

• "rippled brown clay"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by F. W. H. Migeod in 1930

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. W. H. Migeod. 1931. British Museum East Africa Expedition. Account of the work done in 1930. Natural History Magazine 3(19):87-103 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 121265: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
large and small forms
Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio sp. Philipsson 1788 freshwater mussel