List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Paliguana whitei n. gen., n. sp.
Broom 1903
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Broom 1903 | 1 individual | ||||||||
AM 3585 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Procolophonidae
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Procolophon trigoniceps n. gen., n. sp.
Owen 1876
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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 laticeps n. sp.
Seeley 1878
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Seeley 1878 | 1 individual | ||||||||
synonym of Procolophon trigoniceps | ||||||||||
R3583 (holotype) | ||||||||||
Procolophon minor n. sp.
Owen 1876
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Carroll and Lindsay 1985 | 1 individual | ||||||||
synonym of Procolophon trigoniceps | ||||||||||
BMNH R1727 (holotype) | ||||||||||
Procolophon griersoni n. sp.
Seeley 1878
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Seeley 1878 | 1 individual | ||||||||
synonym of Procolophon trigoniceps | ||||||||||
Procolophon cuneiceps n. sp.
Seeley 1878
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Seeley 1878 | 2 individuals | ||||||||
synonym of Procolophon trigoniceps | ||||||||||
BMNH R794 (cited by Seeley, 1905, but is not said to be the type) | ||||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Amphibamidae
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Micropholis stowi
Huxley 1859
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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
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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 |
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, R. Butler, T. Liebrecht |
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] |