Donnybrook (Queenstown District): Induan - Olenekian, South Africa
collected by D. White

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Procolophonidae
Procolophon trigoniceps n. gen., n. sp. Owen 1876
10 specimens
BMNH R1726 (holotype) + 9 specimens in the Albany Museum (see Broom, 1903; Seeley, 1905; this material may include BMNH R518 and R5483, listed by Carroll & Lindsay, 1985)
Procolophon cuneiceps n. sp. Seeley 1878
Seeley 1878 2 individuals
synonym of Procolophon trigoniceps
BMNH R794 (cited by Seeley, 1905, but is not said to be the type)
Procolophon minor n. sp. Owen 1876
Carroll and Lindsay 1985 1 individual
synonym of Procolophon trigoniceps
BMNH R1727 (holotype)
Procolophon griersoni n. sp. Seeley 1878
Seeley 1878 1 individual
synonym of Procolophon trigoniceps
Procolophon laticeps n. sp. Seeley 1878
Seeley 1878 1 individual
synonym of Procolophon trigoniceps
R3583 (holotype)
Reptilia
Paliguana whitei n. gen., n. sp. Broom 1903
Broom 1903 1 individual
AM 3585
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Amphibamidae
Micropholis stowi Huxley 1859
Schoch and Rubidge 2005 9 individuals
BSPG 1934 VIII 42 and 43, three and five fairly complete skulls and skeletons embedded in a single block. BMNH R510a, skull
Petrophryne granulata n. gen., n. sp. Owen 1876
Watson 1913 1 individual
synonym of Micropholis stowi
BMNH R510, skull
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Eastern Cape County:Chris Hani
Coordinates: 32.1° South, 26.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:66.5° South, 21.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
*Period:Early/Lower Permian - Early/Lower Permian
Key time interval:Induan - Olenekian
Age range of interval:251.90200 - 247.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Beaufort Formation:Katberg
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Somewhere between the middle part of the Katberg Fm. and the lowermost part of the overlying Burgersdorp Fm. because this is the interval (upper Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone) to which Procolophon is restricted (see, e.g., Cisneros, 2008, Paleoworld 17(2)).
Cisneros (2008, Palaeont. Afr. 43), based on Kitching (1977), suspects all Procolophon specimens from Donnybrook to come "from the same localized band of dark red mudstone, approximately one metre thick, within the Katberg Formation."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red mudstone
Environment:fluvial indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: The Katberg Fm. "was deposited under arid climatic conditions within the more distal parts of a sandy, bedload-dominated, ephemeral braided stream complex draining a source area composed predominantly of granitic, metamorphic and alkaline volcanic rocks (Hiller and Stavrakis, 1984; Smith, 1995)." (Catuneanu et al. 2005, J. Afr. Earth Sci. 43(1-3)).
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:D. White
Taxonomic list comments:Carroll & Lindsay (1985) list two non-type specimens from Donnybrook, reposited in the BMNH, but do not state whether these are part of the material already mentioned by Broom (1903) and Seeley (1905). Since this cannot be ruled out, these specimens here are are not added to but are regarded as to be included in the material already reported by the latter authors.
Metadata
Also known as:Donnybrooke; Tafelberg; Swart Kei River
Database number:13043
Authorizer:C. Sidor, J. Mueller, R. Butler Enterer:C. Sidor, T. Liebrecht, R. Butler
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-01-17 11:26:37 Last modified:2012-11-16 17:00:48
Access level:the public Released:2002-01-17 11:26:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29612. R. Broom. 1905. Notes on the Localities of some type specimens of the Karroo Fossil Reptiles. Records of the Albany Musuem 1(4):275-278 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]

Secondary references:

29625 R. Broom. 1903. On the skull of a true Lizard (Paliguana Whitei) from the Triassic beds of South Africa. Records of the Albany Museum 1(1):1-3 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
32063 R. Broom. 1903. On the remains of Procolophon in the Albany Museum. Records of the Albany Museum 1(1):8-24 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
29615 R. L. Carroll and W. Lindsay. 1985. Cranial anatomy of the primitive reptile Procolophon. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 22(11):1571-1587 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
46658 R. R. Schoch and B. S. Rubidge. 2005. The amphibamid Micropholis from the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):502-522 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
31898 H. G. Seeley. 1878. On New Species of Procolophon from the Cape Colony preserved in Dr. Grierson's Museum, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire; with some Remarks on the Affinities of the Genus. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 34:797-807 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
29079 H. G. Seeley. 1889. Researches on the Structure, Organisation, and Classification of the Fossil Reptilia. - VI. On the Anomodont Reptilia and Their Allies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 180:215-296 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
32052 H. G. Seeley. 1905. On the Primitive Reptile Procolophon. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1905(vol. 1):218-230 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]
47028 D. M. S. Watson. 1913. Micropholis stowi, Huxley, a temnospondylus amphibian from South Africa. Geological Magazine (Decade V) 10:340-346 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]