18km southwest of Chamwe (Permian of Zambia)

Also known as Bondo

Where: Southern, Zambia (16.5° S, 28.0° E: paleocoordinates 56.7° S, 4.4° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle calcareous Member (Madumabisa Mudstone Formation), Guadalupian (273.0 - 259.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, silty, calcareous mudstone

• Mottled purple-olive silty-mudstone beds with distinctive horizons of vertically oriented micritic rhizoliths

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.A. Sidor et al. in 2011, 2012

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: C. A. Sidor, K. D. Angielczyk, R. M. H. Smith, A. K. Goulding, S. J. Nesbitt, B. R. Peecook, J. S. Steyer and S. Tolan. 2014. Tapinocephalids (Therapsida: Dinocephalia) from the Permian Madumabisa Mudstone Formation (Lower Karoo, Mid-Zambezi Basin) of southern Zambia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34:980-986 [C. Sidor/C. Sidor]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171619: authorized by Chris Sidor, entered by Chris Sidor on 14.07.2015, edited by Brandon Peecook

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Temnospondyli indet. tetrapod
NHCC LB136 cited as voucher specimen
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Tapinocephalidae
Tapinocephalidae indet. Owen 1876 therapsid
NHCC LB130 and other specimens cited as vouchers
 Therapsida - Anteosauridae
Anteosauridae indet. Boonstra 1954 therapsid
NHCC LB134 cited as voucher specimen
 Dicynodontia -
Abajudon kaayai2 Angielczyk et al. 2014 dicynodont
NHCC LB135 cited as voucher specimen
 Therapsida -
Wantulignathus gwembensis3 Whitney and Sidor 2016 therapsid
 Therapsida - Burnetiidae
Mobaceras zambeziense1 Kammerer and Sidor 2021 therapsid
NHCC LB133 cited as voucher specimen
 Therapsida - Gorgonopidae
"Gorgonopsidae indet." = Gorgonopidae
"Gorgonopsidae indet." = Gorgonopidae Lydekker 1890 therapsid
NHCC LB132 cited as voucher specimen