Farm Nooitgedacht, Burgersdorp District (Triassic of South Africa)

Also known as Nooitgedagt

Where: Eastern Cape, South Africa (30.9° S, 26.2° E: paleocoordinates 66.7° S, 13.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cynognathus Assemblage Zone Subzone B other zone, Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• upper Burgersdorp Formation; Subzone B of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone; early Anisian age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; calcareous mudstone

• The Burgersdorp formation was "deposited on a semi-arid, slowly aggrading floodplain drained by sluggish meandering stream channels, which supplied water and sediment to the pedogenically-influenced overbank environments via crevasse splays (Hancox, 1998). Lakes and ponds developed on the floodplain [...]" (Catuneanu et al., 2005, J. African Earth Sci. 43).

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BPI

Primary reference: R. J. Damiani and J. W. Kitching. 2003. A new brachyopid temnospondyl from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, upper Beaufort Group, South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):67-78 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96329: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.06.2010

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Taxonomic list

• Damiani & Kitching (2003) mention "abundant remains" of 'Parotosuchus' africanus with respect to the Nooitgedacht locality, but Damiani (2008) only lists one partial skull.
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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Mastodonsauridae
Xenotosuchus africanus
Xenotosuchus africanus Broom 1909 tetrapod
BP/1/1674/1, partial skull (specimen data are from Damiani, 2008)
 Temnospondyli - Brachyopidae
Vanastega plurimidens n. gen. n. sp.
Vanastega plurimidens n. gen. n. sp. Damiani and Kitching 2003 tetrapod
BP/1/4004, partial skull (holotype), BP/1/5831, partial mandibular ramus
Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia -
Kannemeyeria sp.
Kannemeyeria sp. Seeley 1908 dicynodont
"abundant remains"