Brakfontein 333: Olenekian, South Africa
collected by G. Groenewald
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Procolophonidae
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Coletta seca n. gen., n. sp.
Gow 2000
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1 individual | |||||||||
GHG 228 (type) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | South Africa | State/province: | Eastern Cape | County: | Inxuba Yethemba |
Coordinates: | 32.2° South, 26.1° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 66.6° South, 20.9° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | hand sample |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Triassic |
Stage: | Olenekian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
Key time interval: | Olenekian | Zone: | Lystrosaurus Assemblage |
Age range of interval: | 251.20000 - 247.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Beaufort | Formation: | Katberg | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: " [...] Lystrosaurus assemblage Zone, Katberg Formation, Beaufort Group (lowermost Triassic)." (Modesto et al., 2002).
Botha et al. (2007) note that this occurrence is from the Olenekian part of the Lystrosaurus AZ. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified quartzite | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Lithology description: "recalcitrant, quartzite rich matrix" | |||
Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | mechanical,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collectors: | G. Groenewald |
Collection method comments: GHG = Council for Geosciences, Pretoria |
Metadata
Database number: | 78686 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Mueller | Enterer: | J. Dummasch |
Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-02-14 02:31:44 | Last modified: | 2015-07-09 04:14:03 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2011-02-14 02:31:44 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
26461. | S.P. Modesto, R. J. Damiani, and H.-D. Sues. 2002. A reappraisal of Coletta seca, a basal procolophonoid reptile from the Lower Triassic of South Africa. Palaeontology 45(5):883-895 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch] |
Secondary references:
55754 | J. Botha, S. P. Modesto, and R. M. H. Smith. 2007. Extended procolophonoid reptile survivorship after the end-Permian extinction. South African Journal of Science 103:54-56 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
32269 | C. E. Gow. 2000. A New Procolophonid (Parareptilia) from the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, Beaufort Group, South Africa. Palaeontologia Africana 36:21-23 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |