Dinosaur Beds

The Dinosaur Beds is a geological 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. Dinosaurs, turtles and crocodylomorphs remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. 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.

Vertebrate paleofauna

 * Karongasaurus gittelmani - A lower mandible and a few teeth
 * Malawisaurus dixeyi - "Skull elements, teeth, vertebrae, limb elements osteoderms, of several individuals."
 * Malawisuchus mwakasyungutiensis - A skeleton (almost complete articulated skeleton and skull)
 * Platycheloides nyasae - A partial shell
 * Anura indet.
 * Theropoda indet.

Invertebrate fauna

 * Hourcqia a non marine ostracod