Pebbly Arkose Formation
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "check for unknown parameters".
The Pebbly Arkose Formation is a Late Triassic geologic formation found in southern Africa.
Geology
Description
The formation comprises mainly coarse, arkosic sandstones.[1]
Extent
The Pebbly Arkose Formation is found in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, in the Mid-Zambezi, Mana Pools, Cabora Bassa and Limpopo basins.
Stratigraphy
The Pebbly Arkose Formation is part of the Upper Karoo Group, overlies the Escarpment formation (in the Mid-Zambezi and Limpopo basins)[2] and the Angwa Sandstone Formation (in the Mana Pools and Cabora Bassa Basins)[3] and underlies the Forest Sandstone Formation.[4]
The Pebbly Arkose has been correlated to the Elliot Formation of the Great Karroo Basin, South Africa[4][5] and the Mpandi Formation of the Thuli Basin in Botswana and Zimbabwe.[6]
Fossil content
Flora
| Pinales of the Pebbly Arkose Formation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxa | Presence | Notes | Images | |
| Form genus: Dadoxylon | Widespread in the formation[7] | |||
Vertebrate fauna
Archosaur
| Archosaurs of the Pebbly Arkose Formation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxon | Species | Presence | Materials | Notes | Images |
| Mbiresaurus[8] | M. raathi | Dande Communal Land. | A complete partially-articulated skeleton. | An early member of Sauropodomorpha | |
| Musankwa[9] | M. sanyatiensis | Spurwing Island. | An articulated partial right leg. | A basal massopodan sauropodomorph |
|
| Massospondylus | M. sp. | Spurwing Island. | A basal sauropodomorph. | ||
| Aetosaur[8] | Indeterminate. | ||||
| Herrerasaurid[8] | Indeterminate | Dande Communal Land. | |||
Reptiles
| Rhynchosauria of the Pebbly Arkose Formation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxon | Species | Presence | Materials | Notes | Images |
| Hyperodapedon[10] | Dande, Mbire District, Zimbabwe[10] | ||||
Synapsids
| Synapsida of the Pebbly Arkose Formation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxon | Species | Presence | Materials | Notes | Images |
| Dicynodontia | Indeterminate. | A possible dicynodont[8] | |||
| Gomphodontosuchine[8] | A traversodontid cynodont. | ||||
Fish
| Fish of the Pebbly Arkose Formation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxon | Species | Presence | Materials | Notes | Images |
| Ferganoceratodus[11] | F. edwardsi | A ceratodontiform lungfish | |||
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Zimbabwe
- Geology of Zimbabwe
- Molteno Formation
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d e Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Bibliography
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".