MALAWI
CHIWETA BEDS
WESTERN SHORE OF LAKE MALAWI
MOUNT WALLER AREA
CHIWETA BEDS
EQUIVALENT TO THE CISTECEPHALUS ZONE
WUCHIAPINGIAN STAGE
TATARIAN AGE
LOPINGIAN SUBEPOCH
ZECHSTEIN EPOCH
LATE PERMIAN
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: SYNAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
SUPERORDER: THERASPID BROOM, 1905
GRANDORDER: EUTHERAPSIDA
MICRORDER: NEOTHERAPSIDA
ORDER: ANOMODONTIA WATSON & ROMER, 1956
ORDER: ANOMODONTIA WATSON & ROMER, 1956
INFRAORDER: DICYNODONTIA OWEN, 1860
Superfamily: DIICTODONTIA Cluver & King, 1983
Family: EMYDOPOIDEA Cluver & King, 1983
Subfamily: CISTEOCEPHALINAE Haughton & Brink, 1954 (sensu Cluver & King, 1983)
*Kembawacela yajuwayeyi
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MALAWI
CHIWETA BEDS
LOWER BONE BED (B1)
CORRELATES WITH THE CISTECEPHALUS ZONE
TATARIAN AGE
LOPINGIAN SUBEPOCH
ZECHSTEIN EPOCH
LATE PERMIAN
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: SYNAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
SUPERORDER: THERASPIDA BROOM, 1905
GRANDORDER: EUTHERAPSIDA
MICRORDER: NEOTHERAPSIDA
ORDER: THERIODONTIA OWEN, 1881
SUBORDER: GORGONOPIA SEELEY, 1895
INFRAORDER: ESTEMMENOSUCHOIDEA IVENKNENKOV, 2003
SUPERFAMILY: BURNETIOIDEA BROOM, 1923
FAMILY: BURNETIIDAE BROOM, 1923
SUBFAMILY: BURNETIINAE BROOM, 1923
*Lende chiweta
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MALAWI
CHIWETA BEDS
CISTECEPHALUS ZONE
TATARIAN AGE
LOPINGIAN SUBEPOCH
ZECHSTEIN EPOCH
LATE PERMIAN
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: SYNAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
SUPERORDER: THERASPID BROOM, 1905
GRANDORDER: EUTHERAPSIDA
MICRORDER: NEOTHERAPSIDA
ORDER: ANOMODONTIA WATSON & ROMER, 1956
INFRAORDER: DICYNODONTIA OWEN, 1860
Superfamily: PRISTERODONTIA Cluver & King, 1983
Family: DICYNODONTOIDAE Owen, 1859
Subfamily: CRYPTODONTINAE Owen, 1859
Tribe: OUDENODONTINI Broom, 1935 (sensu Cluver & King, 1983)
Oudenodon baini
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NORTHERN MALAWI
NEAR CHIWETA
CISTECEPHALUS ZONE
TATARIAN AGE
LOPINGIAN SUBEPOCH
ZECHSTEIN EPOCH
LATE PERMIAN
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: SYNAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
SUPERORDER: THERASPID BROOM, 1905
GRANDORDER: EUTHERAPSIDA
MICRORDER: NEOTHERAPSIDA
ORDER: ANOMODONTIA WATSON & ROMER, 1956
INFRAORDER: DICYNODONTIA OWEN, 1860
Superfamily: PRISTERODONTIA Cluver & King, 1983
Family: DICYNODONTOIDAE Owen, 1859
Subfamily: CRYPTODONTINAE Owen, 1859
Tribe: OUDENODONTINI Broom, 1935 (sensu Cluver & King, 1983)
Oudenodon sp
ORDER: THERIODONTIA OWEN, 1881
SUBORDER: GORGONOPIA SEELEY, 1895
INFRAORDER: ESTEMMENOSUCHOIDEA IVENKNENKOV, 2003
Superfamily: BURNETIOIDEA Broom, 1923
Family: BURNETIIDAE Broom, 1923
Subfamily: BURNETIINAE Broom, 1923
Genus: Nova
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MOUNT WALLER
CHIWETA EDS
LATEST CISTECPHALUS ZONE
TATARIAN AGE
LOPINGIAN SUBEPOCH
ZECHSTEIN EPOCH
LATE PERMIAN
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: AMPHIBIA LINNAEUS, 1758
SUBCLASS: LABYRINTHODONTIA OWEN, 1860
SUPERORDER: TEMNOSPONDYLIA ZITTEL, 1887
MICROORDER: LIMNARCHIA YATES & WARREN, 2000
ORDER: STEREOSPONDYLOMORPHA YATES & WARREN, 2000
SUBORDER: RHINESUCHOIDEA ROMER, 1947
Family: RHINESUCHIDAE Watson, 1919
*Rhineceps nyasaensis
= Rhinesuchus nyasaensis
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EAST AFRICA
MALAWI
NYAASSALAND
CHIWETA
B2 BED
HORIZON EQUIVALENT TO THE ENDOTHIODON ZONE
TATARIAN AGE
LOPINGIAN SUBEPOCH
ZECHSTEIN EPOCH
LATE PERMIAN
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: SYNAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
SUPERORDER: THERASPIDA BROOM, 1905
GRANDORDER: EUTHERAPSIDA
MICRORDER: NEOTHERAPSIDA
ORDER: THERIODONTIA OWEN, 1881
SUBORDER: GORGONOPIA SEELEY, 1895
Superfamily: GORGONOPIOIDEA Lydekker, 1890
Family: GORGONOPIDAE Lydekker, 1890
Subfamily: GORGONOPSINAE Sigogneau, 1970
*Gorgonops dixeyi
= Chiwetasaurus dixeyi
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EAST AFRICA
MALAWI
CHIWETA
UPPER BONE BED
EQUAL TO THE CISTECEPHALUS ZONE
TATARIAN AGE
LOPINGIAN SUBEPOCH
ZECHSTEIN EPOCH
LATE PERMIAN
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: SYNAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
SUPERORDER: THERASPIDA BROOM, 1905
GRANDORDER: EUTHERAPSIDA
MICRORDER: NEOTHERAPSIDA
ORDER: THERIODONTIA OWEN, 1881
SUBORDER: GORGONOPIA SEELEY, 1895
Superfamily: GORGONOPIOIDEA Lydekker, 1890
Family: GORGONOPIDAE Lydekker, 1890
Subfamily: RUBIDGEINAE Broom, 1938
*Aelurognathus quadrata
= Dixeya quadrata
*Aelurognathus nyassaensis
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MALAWI (WAS NYASALAND, SOUTHERN AFRICA)
NYASALAND
NW LAKE MALAWI
KARONGA DISTRICT
SAUROPOD-BEARING BEDS OF MWAKASYUNGUTI
LUPATA GROUP
EARLY CRETACEOUS
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: CHELONOMORPHA KUHN, 1960
SUPERCOHORT: TESTUDINES LINNAEUS, 1758
COHORT: CASICHELYDIA emend GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988
MAGNORDER: PLEURODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988
ORDER: PLEURODIRIDA COPE, 1864
Family: PLATYCHELYIDAE Bram, 1965
*Platycheloides nyasae
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NORTHERN MALAWI
KOUM BASIN OF CAMEROON
EARLY CRETACEOUS
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985
LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946
SUPERCOHORT: CRUROTARSI SERENO & ARCUCCI, 1990
COHORT: CROCODYLOTARSI BENTON & CLARK, 1988
MAGNORDER: SUCHIA KREBS, 1974
SUPERORDER: CROCODYLOMORPHA WALKER, 1968
GRANDORDER: CROCODILIFORMES HAY, 1930
MICRORDER: MESOEUROCROCODYLIA WHETSTONE & WHYBROW, 1983
ORDER: EUSUCHIA emend HUXLEY, 1875
INFRAORDER: CROCODYLIA emend GMELIN, 1877
Incertae sedis
Gen. sp indet.