Hugoskop, Rouxville District: Anisian, South Africa
collected by J. W. Kitching

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Therocephalia - Nothogomphodontidae
Microgomphodon oligocynus Seeley 1895
Abdala et al. 2013
BP/1/4655
Reptilia - Procolophonidae
Thelegnathus oppressus n. sp. Gow 1977
3 individuals
recombined as Thelerpeton oppressus
BP/1/4538 (holotype, formerly "BPI 155"), BP/1/4584, 4586 (paratypes)
Thelegnathus perforatus n. sp. Gow 1977
1 individual
recombined as Theledectes perforatus
BP/1/4585 (type)
see common names

Geography
Country:South Africa State/province:Free State County:Xhariep
Coordinates: 30.4° South, 26.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:66.8° South, 11.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Anisian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Anisian Zone: Cynognathus assemblage, subzone B
Age range of interval:247.20000 - 242.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Beaufort Formation:Burgersdorp
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Subzone B of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Beaufort Group, Middle Triassic (Anisian)." (Modesto & Damiani, 2003). This biostratigraphic assignment corresponds to the Burgersdorp Formation (see Catuneanu et al., 2005, J. African Earth Sci. 43).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment:dry floodplain Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: 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).
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BPI
Collectors:J. W. Kitching
Metadata
Database number:92313
Authorizer:J. Mueller, A. Dunhill Enterer:T. Liebrecht, B. Allen
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-11-05 18:10:50 Last modified:2009-11-05 21:26:47
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-11-05 18:10:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

31115. C. E. Gow. 1977. New Procolophonids from the Triassic Cynognathus Zone of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 72(6):109-124 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]

Secondary references:

66849 F. Abdala, T. Jashashvili, B. S. Rubidge and J. Heever. 2013. New Material of Microgomphodon oligocynus (Eutherapsida, Therocephalia) and the Taxonomy of Southern African Bauriidae. In C. Kammerer, K. Angielczyk, J. Fröbisch (eds.), Early Evolutionary History of the Synapsida 209-231 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]
26917 S.P. Modesto and R. J. Damiani. 2003. Taxonomic status of Thelegnathus browni Broom, a procolophonid reptile from the South African Triassic. Annals of Carnegie Museum 72(1):53-64 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch]