Langberg 556 (Triassic of South Africa)

Where: Free State, South Africa (28.2° S, 28.0° E: paleocoordinates 65.5° S, 10.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cynognathus subzone A other zone, Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group), Olenekian (251.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• Lower horizons of the Burgersdorp Formation; Cynognathus subzone A; late Olenekian age

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BPI

Primary reference: F. Abdala, J. Neveling, and J. Welman. 2006. A new trirachodontid cynodont from the lower levels of the Burgersdorp Formation (Lower Triassic) of the Beaufort Group, South Africa and the cladistic relationships of Gondwanan gomphodonts. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 147:383-413 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98611: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 14.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Trirachodontidae
Langbergia modisei n. gen. n. sp.
Langbergia modisei n. gen. n. sp. Abdala et al. 2006 cynodont
NMQR 3251, 3255 (holotype), 3256, three skulls with lower jaws
Reptilia
 Diapsida - Erythrosuchidae
Garjainia madiba Gower et al. 2014 archosauromorph
NMQR 3257, left premaxilla, posterior cervical rib