CD-4, Mwakasyunguti: Aptian, Malawi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
Gomani 2005 1 specimen
Reptilia
"Gigantosaurus" dixeyi Haughton 1928
3 specimens
recombined as Malawisaurus dixeyi
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Reptilia
Notosuchidae indet. Dollo 1924
    = Malawisuchus mwakasyungutiensis Gomani 1997
Gomani 1997
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
see common names

Geography
Country:Malawi State/province:Northern County:Karonga
Coordinates: 10.3° South, 34.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.9° South, 15.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Aptian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 3
Key time interval:Aptian
Age range of interval:121.40000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Lupata Formation:Dinosaur Beds Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:tabular,fine,medium,red,white sandstone
Secondary lithology:gray,red silty mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "The Upper Member consists of fluvial channel and overbank facies with channels often filled by fine- to medium-grained white sand and gray to reddish muds and silts. One fossiliferous facies is composed of thick tabular units of buff to reddish massive sands. Deeply weathered metamorphic pebbles and cobbles are common" (5789)
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:38912
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-05-17 07:58:14 Last modified:2012-09-06 08:43:41
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-17 07:58:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
5789.ETE 1552L. L. Jacobs, D. A. Winkler, Z.M. Kaufulu and W.R. Downs. 1990. The Dinosaur Beds of northern Malawi, Africa. National Geographic Research 6(2):196-204 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]

Secondary references:

14259ETE E. M. Gomani. 1997. A crocodyliform from the Early Cretaceous Dinosaur Beds, northern Malawi. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(2):280-294 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13872ETE E. M. Gomani. 1999. Sauropod caudal vertebrae from Malawi, Africa. In Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:235-248 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13589ETE E. M. Gomani. 2005. Sauropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of Malawi. Palaeontologia Electronica 8(1):1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
10523 L. L. Jacobs, D. A. Winkler, W. R. Downs and E. M. Gomani. 1993. New material of an Early Cretaceous titanosaurid sauropod dinosaur from Malawi. Palaeontology 36(3):523-534 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12527ETE L. L. Jacobs, D. A. Winkler, and E. M. Gomani. 1996. Cretaceous dinosaurs of Africa: examples from Cameroon and Malawi. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39(3):595-610 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]