Kadzi, main locality: Tithonian, Zimbabwe
collected 1967-1972

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Tornieria sp. Sternfeld 1911
Raath and McIntosh 1987 3 specimens
    = Dicraeosauridae indet.
Mannion et al. 2019
caudal vertebra
Reptilia
? Allosauridae indet. Marsh 1878
Raath and McIntosh 1987 1 specimen
    = aff. Ceratosauria indet. Marsh 1884
Carrano et al. 2012
? Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Raath and McIntosh 1987 15 specimens
Barosaurus sp. Marsh 1890
Raath and McIntosh 1987 1 specimen
Dicraeosaurus sp. Janensch 1914
Raath and McIntosh 1987 2 specimens
Reptilia - Camarasauridae
? Camarasaurus sp. Cope 1877
Raath and McIntosh 1987 1 specimen
Reptilia - Brachiosauridae
Brachiosaurus sp. Riggs 1903
Raath and McIntosh 1987 2 specimens
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Raath and McIntosh 1987
"fossil wood"
see common names

Geography
Country:Zimbabwe State/province:Mashonaland North
Coordinates: 16.3° South, 30.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.2° South, 5.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Tithonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 6
Key time interval:Tithonian
Age range of interval:149.20000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kadzi
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: isolated bones from 0.5 sq km area, all in one 20 m unit
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification",coarse,glauconitic,yellow conglomeratic sandstone
Secondary lithology:red silty mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a cross-bedded, generally yellow, coarse sandstone unit containing several conglomeratic layers...both underlain and overlain by silty mudrock which is commonly red."
Environment:alluvial fan
Geology comments: "an alluvial faun derived from a nearby souce of considerable relief, probably related to the graben faulting of the Zambezi trough."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1967-1972
Metadata
Database number:49100
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-08 13:39:25 Last modified:2021-03-31 09:33:50
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-08 13:39:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
32805. G. Bond. 1965. Some new fossil localities in the Karroo System of Rhodesia. Arnoldia, Series of Miscellaneous Publications, National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2(11):1-4 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

32806 D. C. Armstrong, C. A. Castelin, and N. H. Lockett. 1967. Notes on the Geology of the Kadsi River Area, mid-Zambezi Valley. Mennell Society Journal, The University College of Rhodesia 2:11-17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
41617 M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
67806 P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, D. Schwarz and O. Wings. 2019. Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod dinosaur evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(3):784-909 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
76163 P. M. Oesterlen and B. D. Millsteed. 1994. Lithostratigraphy, palaeontology, and sedimentary environments of the western Cabora Bassa Basin, Lower Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe. South African Journal of Geology 97(2):205-224 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32807 M. A. Raath. 1967. Notes on an Occurrence of Fossil Bone in the Sipolilo-Musengezi area, Rhodesia. Mennell Society Journal (Detritus) 2:18-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13124ETE M. A. Raath and J. S. McIntosh. 1987. Sauropod dinosaurs from the central Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe, and the age of the Kadzi Formation. South African Journal of Geology 90(2):107-119 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32810 A. H. Wilson. 1970. Notes on the Geology of the Kadzi Area Zambezi Valley, Sipolilo District. Mennell Society Journal (Detritus) 5:26-28 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]