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Karoo - Forest Sandstone, Zimbabwe

GroupKaroo
FormationForest Sandstone
Member(s)Middle
Upper
Age:201 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic
IntervalHettangian - Sinemurian
Lithologysandstone, marl
Number of Collections9
Number of Occurrences13

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Farm DingaanBubi District, Matabeleland North, ZimbabweKaroo - Forest Sandstone
Farm Waterfall Bubi District, Matabeleland North, ZimbabweKaroo - Forest Sandstone
Southcote Farm Matabeleland North, ZimbabweKaroo - Forest Sandstone
Kwengula streamMatabeleland North, ZimbabweKaroo - Forest Sandstone
Maura RiverGuruve District, Mashonaland Central, ZimbabweKaroo - Forest Sandstone
Farm GwaaiMatabeleland North, ZimbabweKaroo - Forest Sandstone
Farm Glen CurraghMatabeleland North, ZimbabweKaroo - Forest Sandstone - Upper
Chelmer spruitMatabeleland North, ZimbabweKaroo - Forest Sandstone - Middle
Magonye RiverMatabeleland North, ZimbabweKaroo - Forest Sandstone - Upper
east of Ipayi confluenceBeitbridge District, Matabeleland South, ZimbabweKaroo - Forest Sandstone
BB beaconBeitbridge District, Matabeleland South, ZimbabweKaroo - Forest Sandstone
7 km southwest of Sentinal Ranch homesteadBeitbridge District, Matabeleland South, ZimbabweKaroo - Forest Sandstone

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
Forest Sandstone199 - 183 Ma
Early Jurassic		sandstone6
Karoo - Forest Sandstone - Middle201 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic		sandstone/"carbonate"2
Karoo - Forest Sandstone - Upper201 - 191 Ma
Early Jurassic		sandstone3

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Reptilia
class		3Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia201.3 - 190.8 Ma
Early Jurassic
Coelophysis rhodesiensis
species		7Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Coelophysidae : Coelophysis : Coelophysis rhodesiensis201.3 - 190.8 Ma
Early Jurassic
Massospondylus sp.
genus		6Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Massospondylidae : Massospondylus201.3 - 190.8 Ma
Early Jurassic
Massospondylus carinatus
species		7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Massospondylidae : Massospondylus : Massospondylus carinatus201.3 - 190.8 Ma
Early Jurassic
Prosauropoda
unranked clade		99Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Fulengia : Prosauropoda201.3 - 190.8 Ma
Early Jurassic
Thecodontosaurus sp.
genus		6Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Anchisauridae : Thecodontosaurus201.3 - 190.8 Ma
Early Jurassic

References

MacGregor A. M. (1929) Fossil reptilian remains from Glen Curragh Farm, Nyamandhlovu District, Proceedings of the Rhodesia Scientific Association 29, 6-7
Phaup A. E. (1932) Fossil reptilian remains from Chelmer Farm, Nyamandhlovu District, Proceedings of the Rhodesia Scientific Association 31, 37-39
Bond G. (1955) A note on dinosaur remains from the Forest Sandstone (Upper Karroo), Occasional Papers of the National Museums of Southern Rhodesia 2 20, 795-800
Attridge J. (1963) The Upper Triassic Karroo deposits and fauna of southern Rhodesia, South African Journal of Science 59 5, 242-247
Raath M. A. (1969) A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Forest Sandstone of Rhodesia, Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 4 28, 1-254
Bond G. (1972) Milestones in Rhodesian paleontology (1901–1971), Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 75 2, 151-158
Raath M. A. (1974) Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: Further evidence of gastroliths in prosauropod dinosaurs, Arnoldia 7 5, 1-7
Thompson A. O. (1975) The Karoo rocks in the Mazinga area, Beitbridge District, Rhodesia Geological Survey Short Report 40, 1-79
Raath M. A. (1977) The Anatomy of the Triassic Theropod Syntarsus rhodesiensis (Saurischia: Podokesauridae) and a Consideration of Its Biology, Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Salisbury, Rhodesia, 1-233
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
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