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| type = [[Geological formation]] |
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| age = {{fossilrange|Barremian|Aptian}} |
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| period = Aptian |
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| prilithology = [[Sandstone]], [[siltstone]], [[mudstone]] |
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| region = [[Northern Region, Malawi|Northern Region]] |
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| country = {{flag|Malawi}} |
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| unitof = [[Lupata Group]] |
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| subunits = Lower Member, Upper Member |
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| coordinates = {{Coord|10.28|S|34.04|E|display=inline}} |
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| underlies = Unconformity with [[Pliocene]] [[Chiwondo Beds]] |
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| overlies = [[Precambrian]] [[metamorphic]] [[Basement (geology)|basement]] |
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| thickness = Upper member is {{convert|210|m|ft|abbr=on}} thick in vicinity of CD-9 locality |
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| extent = [[Karonga District]] |
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The '''Dinosaur Beds''' is a geological [[Formation (geology)|formation]] in Malawi whose strata date back to the [[Early Cretaceous]]. The age of the deposit is poorly constrained, but is likely to date from the [[Barremian]] to [[Aptian]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Widlansky|first=Sarah J.|last2=Clyde|first2=William C.|last3=O'Connor|first3=Patrick M.|last4=Roberts|first4=Eric M.|last5=Stevens|first5=Nancy J.|date=March 2018|title=Paleomagnetism of the Cretaceous Galula Formation and implications for vertebrate evolution|journal=Journal of African Earth Sciences|volume=139|pages=403–420|doi=10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2017.11.029|issn=1464-343X}}</ref> Dinosaurs, turtles and crocodyliomorphs remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.<ref name="cretaceousdistribution">Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, Africa)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 571-573. {{ISBN|0-520-24209-2}}.</ref> It is correlated with the [[Galula Formation]] in [[Tanzania]]. It consists of two members, a lower unfossiliferous member consisting of deep red stained sandstones, and an upper fossiliferous member consisting of white sands and grey to red mudstones and siltstones. The upper member is 210 m thick in the vicinity of the CD-9 locality.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=WINKLER|first=DALE A.|last2=GOMANI|first2=ELIZABETH M.|last3=JACOBS|first3=LOUIS L.|date=2000|title=COMPARATIVE TAPHONOMY OF AN EARLY CRETACEOUS SAUROPOD QUARRY, MALAWI, AFRICA|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274082885|journal=Paleont. Soc. Korea Special Publication|volume=4|pages=99–114}}</ref> |
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== Vertebrate paleofauna == |
== Vertebrate paleofauna == |
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Revision as of 01:20, 4 January 2021
Dinosaur Beds (Vatican City)
Dinosaur Beds (Monaco)
Dinosaur Beds (Nauru)
Dinosaur Beds (Tuvalu)
Dinosaur Beds (San Marino)
Dinosaur Beds (Liechtenstein)
Dinosaur Beds (Marshall Islands)
Dinosaur Beds (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
Dinosaur Beds (Maldives)
Dinosaur Beds (Malta)
Vertebrate paleofauna
- Karongasaurus gittelmani - A lower mandible and a few teeth
- Malawisaurus dixeyi - "Skull elements, teeth, vertebrae, limb elements osteoderms, of several individuals."[1]
- Malawisuchus mwakasyungutiensis - A skeleton (almost complete articulated skeleton and skull)
- Platycheloides nyasae - A partial shell
- Anura indet.
- Theropoda indet.
Invertebrate fauna
See also
References
- ^ "Table 13.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 269.