The British Museum (Natural History) — University of London Joint Palæontological Expedition to Northern Rhodesia and Tanganyika, 1963

A possible ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic Manda Beds of Tanzania

“…Other laterally equivalent units within southern Africa include the Omingonde Formation of Namibia, and the N'tawere Formation of Zambia (Catuneanu et al, 2005;Sidor et al, 2008). However, Charig (1963) and Abdala and Ribeiro (2003) noted that the fossil tetrapod assemblage of the Manda Beds contains a mixture of taxa with relatively smaller and greater proportions of derived characters, and that it might in fact represent two distinct faunas of different ages. Further work on the stratigraphy of the Manda Formation is required.…”

“…Stockley referred to this sequence as the Songea Series, and collected vertebrate fossils from two of these subdivisions: the "Lower Bone Bed" (unit K6) and the "Upper Bone Bed" (within unit K8, which also included the "Manda Beds"). Charig (1963) clarified the nomenclature of the uppermost three units (K6-K8) of the basin; he renamed unit K6 as the Kawinga Formation, advocated the use of Kingori Sandstones as the name for unit K7, and renamed unit K8 as the Manda Formation. Moreover, Charig (1963) demonstrated that there is no single "Upper Bone Bed" horizon within unit K8, but that tetrapod remains occur in multiple horizons.…”

“…Charig (1963) clarified the nomenclature of the uppermost three units (K6-K8) of the basin; he renamed unit K6 as the Kawinga Formation, advocated the use of Kingori Sandstones as the name for unit K7, and renamed unit K8 as the Manda Formation. Moreover, Charig (1963) demonstrated that there is no single "Upper Bone Bed" horizon within unit K8, but that tetrapod remains occur in multiple horizons. Recent nomenclatural revisions have renamed unit K6 as the Usili Formation, unit K7 as the Kingori Sandstone Member of the Manda Beds, and unit K8 as the Lifua Member of the Manda Beds (Catuneanu et al, 2005).…”

“…Additional Manda Formation archosaur material was collected in 1963 by a joint expedition from the British Museum (Natural History) (now the Natural History Museum, London) and the University of London (Attridge et al, 1964). These specimens are also undescribed, but one (now registered as NHM R16586) was noted by Attridge et al (1964:447-448) as follows: "an unusual find was an isolated archosaurian dorsal vertebra bearing a strong neural spine more than five times as high as the centrum".…”

Resolving the age of Madumabisa fossil vertebrates: Palynological evidence from the mid-Zambezi Basin of Zambia

“…A, Map of productive palynology sample localities at existing vertebrate sites in the mid-Zambezi Basin, Zambia, with Karoo deposits shaded in dark grey. Tetrapod-bearing areas of the Luangwa Basin (after Angielcyzk et al, 2014) are indicated by number: Area 1 = northern Permian localities of Dixey (1937); Boonstra (1938); Kitching (1962, 1963); Kitching (1963) and Attridge et al (1964); Area 2 = Triassic localities of Kitching (1962, 1963); Kitching (1963) and Attridge et al (1964); Area 3 = North Luangwa National Park localities of Kerr (1974) and Kemp (1975); Area 4 = Munyamadzi localities of Kerr (1974) and Kemp (1975). B, a generalised stratigraphic section of the Permian Gwembe and Madumabisa formations in the Bondo district.…”