Farm Norwood, late Tr. (Triassic to of South Africa)

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (31.6° S, 26.4° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° S, 3.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Elliot Formation), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• base of the Elliot Formation immediately above contact with underlying Molteno Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Hancox; reposited in the BPI

Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical,

Primary reference: C. E. Gow and P. J. Hancox. 1993. First complete skull of the Late Triassic Scalenodontoides (Reptilia Cynodontia) from southern Africa. In S. G. Lucas, M. Morales (eds.), The Nonmarine Triassic, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 3:161-168 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105771: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Traversodontidae
Scalenodontoides macrodontes Crompton and Ellenberger 1957 cynodont
BP/1/5395, remains of three individuals including a nearly complete skull