Zimbabwe
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Maura River, Zambezi Valley 1 : Matabeleland North - Nyamandhlovu 5925 29797 Zambezi Valley- Megapnosaurus rhodesiensis identifié comme Syntarsus rhodesiensis
- east of Ipayi confluence, Limpopo : Matabeleland South - ? 57335 on N bank of Limpopo River, E of the Ipayi confluence, 90 m W of Sentinel Ranch homestead; outcrop extends for 140 m along bank, up to 3 m above the river.
- Massospondylus carinatus
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Gryponyx africanus
- Lake Kariba Island 126/127 : Mashonaland North - ? 9275 17068 63435 68574 77101 On an unnamed island (Island 126/127) in Lake Kariba, about 8 km WSW of Bumi Hills Hotel, Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia in this paper).
- Mana Pools Camp site : Mashonaland West - ? 9277 10538 12925 "well below the 2000' contour" on topo map; Mana Pools Camp, overlooking gorge in Angwa River, downstream of confluence with Maura River, less than 10 miles from the foot of the Zambezi escarpment, Sipololo district (now Mashonaland West), Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
- Mitchell Spring Grange Farm : Matabeleland North - Nyamandhlovu 5925 9278 Spring Grange farm, Nyamandhlovu district, Bubi county, about 24 miles N of Bulawayo, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
- Megapnosaurus rhodesiensis identifié comme Syntarsus rhodesiensis
- Farm Dingaan, Bubi : Matabeleland North - Nyamandhlovu 9522 9818 15499 26977 59099 63435 Dingaan farm (neighboring Waterfall Farm, 25 miles NE of Bulawayo), Bubi District, Southern Rhodesia (= Zimbabwe)
- Farm Waterfall (well), Bubi : Matabeleland North - Nyamandhlovu 9522 9818 15499 26977 59099 63435 from the dump of a well, Waterfall farm, 25 miles NE of Bulawayo, Bubi district, Southern Rhodesia (= Zimbabwe).
- Ntumbe area tracksite 5, Chewore : Mashonaland West - Hurungwe 10740 33394 85588 on Kachowe toposheet, Ntumbe area, Chewore/Chiwore Safari Area, along a stream that is a N tributary of the Ntumbe River. Two sites on successive beds, 5-1 and 5-2
- Ntumbe area tracksite 4, Chewore : Mashonaland West - Hurungwe 10740 33394 on Kachowe toposheet, Ntumbe area, Chewore/Chiwore Safari Area, W of site 3, along a stream that is a N tributary of the Ntumbe River
- Ntumbe area tracksite 2, Chewore : Mashonaland West - Hurungwe 10740 33394 on Kachowe toposheet, Ntumbe area, Chewore/Chiwore Safari area, on a small, 2-m-wide stream where it widens up to 10 m, a tributary N of the Ntumbe River
- Ntumbe area tracksite 3, Chewore : Mashonaland West - Hurungwe 10740 33394 85588 on Kachowe toposheet, Ntumbe area, Chewore/Chiwore Safari Area, on a small stream that is a N tributary of the Ntumbe River
- Mpandi prosauropod site 1 : Matabeleland South - ? 11947 northern Limpopo Valley
- Mpandi prosauropod site 2 : Matabeleland South - ? 11947 northern Limpopo Valley
- Mpandi prosauropod site 3 : Matabeleland South - ? 11947 northern Limpopo Valley
- Massospondylus
- Sauropodomorpha identifié comme ? Euskelosaurus sp.
- Mpandi prosauropod site 4 : Matabeleland South - ? 11947 northern Limpopo Valley
- Mpandi prosauropod site 5 : Matabeleland South - ? 11947 northern Limpopo Valley
- Mpandi prosauropod site 6 : Matabeleland South - ? 11947 northern Limpopo Valley
- Mpandi prosauropod site 7 : Matabeleland South - ? 11947 northern Limpopo Valley
- Mpandi prosauropod site 8 : Matabeleland South - ? 11947 northern Limpopo Valley
- Massospondylus
- Sauropodomorpha identifié comme Euskelosaurus sp.
- Southcote Farm (NMR) : Matabeleland North - Nyamandhlovu 12925 Southcote Farm
- Kwengula stream, Southcote Farm : Matabeleland North - Nyamandhlovu 5925 12927 13579 29797 56881 63435 exposures on Kwengula stream, Southcote Farm, Nyamandhlovu district, on bank of Kwengula River, 20 miles (38 km) NW of Bulawayo
- Megapnosaurus rhodesiensis identifié comme Syntarsus rhodesiensis n. gen. n. sp.
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Massospondylus harriesi
- Z 53/3, Cabora Bassa Basin : Mashonaland Central - ? 7097 12946 32306 Dande Communal Lands, Cabora Bassa Basin; main rhynchosaur locality, grass-covered hilly area, ten individual bone concentrations found within a 200m square area.
- Kadzi, main locality : Mashonaland North - ? 13124 32805 41617 67806 where tsetse control fence crosses road linking Guruve (Sipolilo) and Musengezi Mission, just SW of road gravel pit
- Kadzi, NW locality : Mashonaland North - ? 13124 where tsetse control fence crosses road linking Guruve (Sipolilo) and Musengezi Mission, 1.5 km NW of main locaity
- Kadzi, SW locality : Mashonaland North - ? 13124 where tsetse control fence crosses road linking Guruve (Sipolilo) and Musengezi Mission, 1 km SW of main locaity
- Kadzi, WNW locality : Mashonaland North - ? 13124 32808 where tsetse control fence crosses road linking Guruve (Sipolilo) and Musengezi Mission, 20 km WNW of main locaity
- Chitake River bonebed : Mashonaland North - ? 5925 13579 29797 32805 Chitake River, central Zambezi Valley, 80 km W of Maura River locality
- Megapnosaurus rhodesiensis identifié comme Syntarsus rhodesiensis
- Maura River, Zambezi Valley 2 : Matabeleland North - Nyamandhlovu 5925 13579 63435 on Maura River, central Zambezi Valley, 450 km NW of Syntarsus type locality
- Megapnosaurus rhodesiensis identifié comme Syntarsus rhodesiensis
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Massospondylus harriesi
- Southcote Farm : Matabeleland North - Nyamandhlovu 15499 26977 63435 Nyamandhlovu district; in a spruit about 3/4 mi SW of the homestead at Southcote Farm
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Massospondylus harriesi
- Farm Gwaai : Matabeleland North - Nyamandhlovu 15499 56881 In Nyamandhlovu District, in a quarry on the Gwaai Farm opened by the Roads Department for road grading materials; material from six localities in and around the quarry (3 acres total area)
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Massospondylus harriesi
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Gryponyx sp.
- Gokwe town (upper) : Midlands - ? 17314 along road NW of town of Gokwe
- Kiswiswi headwaters, Gokwe (1) (upper) : Midlands - ? 17314 along E edge of headwaters of Kiswiswi River
- Kiswiswi headwaters, Gokwe (2) (upper) : Midlands - ? 17314 along E edge of headwaters of Kiswiswi River
- Kiswiswi headwaters, Gokwe (3) (upper) : Midlands - ? 17314 along E edge of headwaters of Kiswiswi River
- Kiswiswi headwaters, Gokwe (4) (upper) : Midlands - ? 17314 along E edge of headwaters of Kiswiswi River
- Kiswiswi headwaters, Gokwe (5) (upper) : Midlands - ? 17314 along E edge of headwaters of Kiswiswi River
- Mbvumbvudzi River north (1) (upper) : Midlands - ? 17314 headwaters of northern tributary of Mbvumbvudzi River, along road from Gokwe
- Mbvumbvudzi River north (2) (upper) : Midlands - ? 17314 headwaters of northern tributary of Mbvumbvudzi River, along road from Gokwe
- Mbvumbvudzi River north (3) (upper) : Midlands - ? 17314 headwaters of northern tributary of Mbvumbvudzi River, along road from Gokwe
- Mbvumbvudzi River north (4) (upper) : Midlands - ? 17314 headwaters of northern tributary of Mbvumbvudzi River, along road from Gokwe
- Sengwa River north, Gokwe (lower) : Midlands - ? 17314 N side of Sengwa River drainage, W of Gokwe
- Mbvumbvudzi River north (1) (lower) : Midlands - ? 17314 headwaters of northern tributary of Mbvumbvudzi River
- Mbvumbvudzi River north (2) (lower) : Midlands - ? 17314 headwaters of northern tributary of Mbvumbvudzi River
- Farm Glen Curragh : Matabeleland North - Nyamandhlovu 26977 32789 Glen Curragh farm, 16 mi SW of Nyamandhlovu station; "the western sub-division of Nyogene (or Inyokene) farm, and the point on it where the fossils were found is approximately 16 miles in a direction 16 degrees south of west from Nyamandhlovu railway station. The neighborhood is...drained by the Chesa river, which joins the Gwai river about 6 miles to the west-north-west." (MacGregor 1929)
- Chelmer spruit, Farm Chelmer (1) : Matabeleland North - Nyamandhlovu 15499 26977 32788 59099 Chelmer spruit, on Farm Chelmer, about 15 mi from Bulawayo on the Nyamandhlovu road; "The fossil remains were found in one of these tributary gullies in the north bank of the main stream about one thousand five hundred yards north forty degrees west of Chelmer homestead" (Phaup 1932)
- Magonye River, Farm Galeta : Matabeleland North - Nyamandhlovu 26977 near homestead of Galeta's Farm, in a small tributary of the Umguza River called the Magonye, about 35 mi from Bulawayo near the Victoria Falls Road
- Prosauropoda identifié comme Massospondylus cf. harriesi
- Dinosaur Cliffs, Gokwe : Midlands - ? 32809 "south and west of Gokwe....near Dinosaur Cliffs"
- Spurwing Island, Lake Kariba : Mashonaland West - ? 77101 Spurwing Island, Lake Kariba
- Elephant Point, Lake Kariba : Mashonaland West - ? 77101 Elephant Point, Lake Kariba
- Gordon's Bay area : Mashonaland West - ? 77101 Gordon's Bay area, S shore of Lake Kariba
- Namembere Island : Mashonaland West - ? 77101 Namembere Island, Lake Kariba (W of Island 126/127)
- Nyanzirau : Mashonaland West - ? 77101 Nyanzirau, along the Leopard Hill geotraverse, S of Lake Kariba
- Lake Kariba Island 126/127 (facies B) : Mashonaland North - ? 77101 On an unnamed island (Island 126/127) in Lake Kariba, about 8 km WSW of Bumi Hills Hotel, Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia in this paper).
- The Dock, Spurwing Island : Mashonaland West - ? 77101 The Dock, Spurwing Island, Lake Kariba
- Spurwing East Palaeosol, Spurwing Island : Mashonaland West - ? 77101 88533 Spurwing East Palaeosol, north-eastern shoreline of Spurwing Island, Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe
- Transect A, Dande Communal Land : Mashonaland Central - ? 83255 Transect A, Dande Communal Land
- Transect B, Dande Communal Land : Mashonaland Central - ? 83255 Transect B, Dande Communal Land
- Transect C, Dande Communal Land : Mashonaland Central - ? 83255 Transect C, Dande Communal Land
- Dande Communal Land (northwest of transects) : Mashonaland Central - ? 83255 northwest of transects A–C, Dande Communal Land
- new theropod tracksite, Ntumbe River : Mashonaland West - Hurungwe 85588 on S bank of Ntumbe River
- new sauropod tracksite, Ntumbe River : Mashonaland West - Hurungwe 85588 on S bank of Ntumbe River
Publication(s)
- M. A. Raath. 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
- A. Bristowe and M. A. Raath. 2004. A juvenile coelophysoid skull from the Early Jurassic of Zimbabwe, and the synonymy of Coelophysis and Syntarsus. Palaeontologia Africana 40:31-41
- A. O. Thompson. 1975. The Karoo rocks in the Mazinga area, Beitbridge District. Rhodesia Geological Survey Short Report 40:1-79
- G. Bond, J. F. Wilson, and M. A. Raath. 1970. Upper Karroo pillow lava and a new sauropod horizon in Rhodesia. Nature 227:1339
- M. A. Raath. 1972. Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: a new dinosaur (Reptilia: Saurischia) from near the Tria-Jurassic boundary. Arnoldia 5(31):1-37
- G. Bond. 1972. Milestones in Rhodesian paleontology (1901–1971). Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 75(2):151-158
- P. Taquet. 1977. Les découvertes récentes de Dinosaures du Jurassique et du Crétacé en Afrique, au Proche et Moyen-Orient et en Inde [Recent discoveries of dinosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous in Africa, the Near and Middle East, and India]. Mémoire Hors Serie—Société Géologique de France 8:325-330
- L. Sciscio, P. A. Viglietti, and P. M. Barrett, T. J. Broderick, D. Munyikwa, K. E. J. Chapelle, K. N. Dollman, S. F. Edwards, M. Zondo, J. N. Choiniere. 2021. Sedimentology and palaeontology of the Upper Karoo Group in the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe: new localities and their implications for interbasinal correlation. Geological Magazine 158:1035-1058
- M. A. Raath, C. C. Smith, and G. Bond. 1970. A new Upper Karroo dinosaur fossil locality on the Lower Angwa River, Sipolilo District, Rhodesia. Arnoldia 4(35):1-10
- M. R. Cooper. 1981. The prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus carinatus Owen from Zimbabwe: its biology, mode of life and phylogenetic significance. Occasional Papers of the National Museums and Monuments of Rhodesia, Series B, Natural Sciences 6(10):689-840
- M. A. Raath. 1974. Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: Further evidence of gastroliths in prosauropod dinosaurs. Arnoldia 7(5):1-7
- M. A. Raath. 1972. First record of dinosaur footprints from Rhodesia. Arnoldia 5(37):1-5
- H. B. Maufe. 1916. (Discovery of dinosaurian remains in the Forest Sandstones of Southern Rhodesia). Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 17(Proceeding):xxxiii-xxxiv
- S. H. Haughton. 1924. The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg Series. Annals of the South African Museum 12:323-497
- J. Attridge. 1963. The Upper Triassic Karroo deposits and fauna of southern Rhodesia. South African Journal of Science 59(5):242-247
- G. Bond. 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
- R. Furon. 1963. Geology of Africa.
- A. Ait-Kaci Ahmed and M. A. Mukandi. 2001. A survey of the new dinosaur footprint sites in the vicinity of the Ntmbe River, Chewore Safari Area. Zimbabwe Geological Survey, Harare
- T. Lingham-Soliar, T. Broderick, and A. A. K. Ahmed. 2003. Closely associated theropod trackways from the Jurassic of Zimbabwe. Naturwissenschaften 90:572-576
- A. Ait-Kaci Ahmed. 2015. The Ntumbe River Dinosaur Footprint Sites (Lower Zambezi Valley, Chewore South). Geological Society of Zimbabwe Field Excursion Guidebook
- D. Munyikwa. 1997. Faunal analysis of Karoo-aged sediments in the northern Limpopo Valley, Zimbabwe. Arnoldia Zimbabwe 10(13):129-140
- M. A. Raath. 1968. Rhodesian dinosaurs in a southern African context. The Rhodesia Science News 2(6):89-91
- M. A. Raath. 1969. A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Forest Sandstone of Rhodesia. Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 4(28):1-254
- M. A. Raath. 1990. Morphological variation in small theropods and its meaning in systematics: evidence from Syntarsus rhodesiensis. Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- M. A. Raath, P. M. Oesterlen, and J. W. Kitching. 1992. First record of Triassic Rhynchosauria (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Lower Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe. Palaeontologia Africana 29:1-10
- M. C. Langer, F. Abdala, and M. Richter, M. J. Benton. 1999. A sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of southern Brazil. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris: Sciences de la terre et des planètes 329:511-517
- M. A. Raath. 1996. Earliest evidence of dinosaurs from central Gondwana. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39(3):703-709
- G. Bond. 1965. Some new fossil localities in the Karroo System of Rhodesia. Arnoldia, Series of Miscellaneous Publications, National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2(11):1-4
- M. A. Raath and J. S. McIntosh. 1987. Sauropod dinosaurs from the central Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe, and the age of the Kadzi Formation. South African Journal of Geology 90(2):107-119
- M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300
- P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, and D. Schwarz, O. Wings. 2019. Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod dinosaur evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(3):784-909
- N. Bertram. 1971. A new dinosaur fossil locality in the Kadsi River area of the Zambesi Valley. Mennell Society Journal (Detritus) 6:20-21
- G. Bond and K. Bromley. 1970. Sediments with the remains of dinosaurs near Gokwe, Rhodesia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 8:313-327
- A. M. MacGregor. 1929. Fossil reptilian remains from Glen Curragh Farm, Nyamandhlovu District. Proceedings of the Rhodesia Scientific Association 29:6-7
- A. E. Phaup. 1932. Fossil reptilian remains from Chelmer Farm, Nyamandhlovu District. Proceedings of the Rhodesia Scientific Association 31:37-39
- V. A. Smith. 1970. The Collection and Preparation of a Sauropod Femur from the Gokwe Formation, Rhodesia. Mennell Society Journal (Detritus) 5:15-16
- P. M. Barrett, K. E. J. Chapelle, and L. Sciscio, T. J. Broderick, M. Zondo, D. Munyikwa, J. N. Choiniere. 2024. A new Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 69(2):227-241
- C. T. Griffin, B. M. Wynd, and D. Munyikwa, T. J. Broderick, M. Zondo, S. Tolan, M. C. Langer, S. J. Nesbitt, H. R. Taruvinga. 2022. Africa’s oldest dinosaurs reveal early suppression of dinosaur distribution. Nature 609(7926):313-319
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